About the BSA SPHS Image Collection
The SPHS photographic collection was amassed by The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies between 1891 and 1967 through the donation of images. It contained negatives, both glass and film in a variety of sizes, photographic prints and glass lantern slides. It contains both original and copy negatives. Index cards with small contact prints served as finding aids for the collection. It was designed as an image reference collection where images could be duplicated as either prints or slides and sold or lent to members.
The BSA SPHS Collection is part of the original SPHS photographic collection, selected by donors who were associated with the BSA or images of topographic interest, particularly in areas the BSA was known to have worked. The remainder of the extant SPHS collection went to the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archives (MIET-ELIA) in Athens. Documentation for this collection consists of 5 Negative registers (held in the SPHS offices in London), the published catalogues or accession lists of lantern slides in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, the Minute Book December 1949-January 1983 for the Photographic and Filmstrip Committee of the SPHS (held in the SPHS Library in London) and information contained on extant index cards.
The original description in the SPHS Catalogue reads: "Cnossos: plans, section, & elevations of Throne".
The original description in the SPHS Catalogue reads: "Cnossos: view of shrine of double axes".
The original description in the SPHS Catalogue reads: "Cnossos: view of shrine of double axes".
The original description in the SPHS Catalogue reads: "Cnossos: hall of colonnades, back corner, showing timber courses".
The original description in the SPHS Catalogue reads: "Cnossos: relief plaster, arm with vessel".
The original description in the SPHS Catalogue reads: "Cnossos: stone amphora. Two view, side & top".
The original description in the SPHS Catalogue reads: "Cnossos: north face of Palace. BSA VII pl.2".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis from the garden of Zappeion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis from the garden of Zappeion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "The choragic monument of Lysicrates".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "The choragic monument of Lysicrates.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Crete: Cnossos. throne, near view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos: stepped theatrical area (BSA ix. fig 69)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos: general view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos: Hall of double axes &c. from tower".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Kalamafka: Demarchs house (Wells. Marshall)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, acropolis, Frankish tower".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 336. Aetolia, New Pleuron, tower and wall (Woodhouse, Aetolia)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 561. Aetolia, Vulpi, wall from S. (after Woodhouse)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 493. Elis, Phigaleia temple from NW (1893)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 6. Elis, Phigaleia temple base of interior column".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 610. Elis, Phigaleia temple interior".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 611. Elis, Phigaleia temple interior".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sidyma".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Agora: Athena Archegitis gate".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, sometime mosque".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, sometime mosque".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delos: view from Cave of Apollo".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: grave relief: girl with lekythos in situ".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Crete: Retimo. Roman bridge on the coast road".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae: roof of great tresuary, taken from below".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Pylos: 'Brassidas' landing, from Sphakteria".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia: Temple of Zeus. View from N. (near Pelopeion)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia: Temple of Zeus. View from S. E.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns: Cyclopean walls".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sicyon: the theatre".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sicyon: the theatre".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus: Asklepion, Showing ascent to upper story".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus: general view with ramp ascending to temple on foreground".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Theatre chair dedicated to M. Ulpius".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Areopagus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens. Theseum".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Northern Greece: Scironian Cliffs".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Peloponnese: Patras from the sea".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns: galleries".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi: Castalion gorge".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus: view shewing well the fine preservations of auditorium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis. Nike Apteros from E".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis. Odeion of Herodes, interior looking S. W."
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis. Relief from Temple to Rome & Augustus".