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 register reads: "Slide of the frieze of the Parthenon showing above condition when the casts were made in and beneath their deteriorated condition today".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Slide of the frieze of the Parthenon showing above condition when the casts were made in and beneath their deteriorated condition today".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Slide of the frieze of the Parthenon showing above condition when the casts were made in and beneath their deteriorated condition today".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Slide of the frieze of the Parthenon showing above condition when the casts were made in and beneath their deteriorated condition today".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Marathon: the river Charadra and village".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Marathon: plan (Macan's Herodotus)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Marathon: soros, or mound raised on the tomb of the Athenian dead".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Crisean plain from Delphi".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, drums of columns of the Parthenon".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, the entablature of the Parthenon at South-Eastern angle".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, monument of Thrasyllus from below".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, Odeion of Herodes external view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "View between Arachova and Οδος σχιστη"
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Οδος σχιστη".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Arachova".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympieion from East".
One of a group of images relating to the British School at Athens: buildings and setting, scholars and students. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sir Arthur Evans portrait".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asinou (Cyprus) Byzantine fresco".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asinou (Cyprus) Byzantine fresco".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asinou (Cyprus) Byzantine fresco".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asinou (Cyprus) Byzantine fresco".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Corinthian plate from Polis site, Ithaca".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thasos. Relief on jamb of town gate".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thasos. Relief on jamb of town gate".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Nereid: American excavation of Agora at Athens".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium general view of the temple".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Zante, court of monastery".
One of a group of images relating to the British School at Athens: buildings and setting, scholars and students. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Humfry G G Payne"
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acropolis birdseye view from aeroplane".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Nike Apteros from E".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Parthenon interior".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Parthenon foundations, function of old & new Parthenon".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Erechtheion from SW".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Peiraeus, view from airplane".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acropolis, Mycenaean wall near Propylaea".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens Themistochlean wall, shewing athletic relief embedded".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mistra, apse and arcade".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ephesus, Hill of Ayasoluk: Byz. citadel: Seljuk Mosque: looking NE ".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ephesus, Theatre; orchestra & stage building, in distance, the Astyages Hill to W".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ephesus, near theatre; looking N towards its S door".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ephesus, Agora, view along E. side looking N".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hierapolis, Great baths; only arch preserved to S".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hierapolis, Great baths; peasants in foreground to E".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hierapolis, White lime deposits & tomb 1/4 submerged to NW overlooking Lykos valley".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hierapolis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Didyma; temple front, with steps to W".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Didyma; temple front, with steps to S".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Didyma; temple view in adyton, near SE wall, looking N".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Didyma; temple view along front, looking SE".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Didyma; temple view in adyton, to NE, with lower door of 'labyrinth' on NW side".