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: "Athens: (Byzantine art) The Metropolis. Door of Narthex".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: (Byzantine art) The Metropolis. St. Theodore from E.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Byzantine art. Kapnikarea from the E.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Byzantine art. Kapnikarea from the W.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Byzantine art. Apse of St. Andrew".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Byzantine Attica. Patissia. The Omorphi Eklesia from the S.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Byzantine Attica. Patissia. The Omorphi Eklesia from W. with polygonal remains".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Daphne: Patissia. The convent".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Daphne: Patissia. Mosaics. Series of six saints".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Daphne: Patissia. Mosaics. Series of six saints".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Daphne: Patissia. Mosaics. Series of six saints".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Daphne: Patissia. Mosaics. Series of six saints".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Daphne: Patissia. Mosaics. Series of six saints".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Daphne: Patissia. Mosaics. Series of six saints".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis: Sekos from S.W. angle (W.L. Enlargement No.7)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis: Sekos from N.W. angle".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis: Sekos from N.W. angle".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis: Precinct of Pluto from N.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium: from S.E. (W.L. Enlargement No. 3)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium: from S.E. (W.L. Enlargement No. 2)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium: from S.E. (W.L. Enlargement No. 2)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium: from East (W.L. Enlargement No. 3)". The entry has been struck out in the SPHS register, presumably deaccessioned.
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium: Interior, looking W."
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Oropos: Theatre at Amphiareion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Oropos: Theatre at Amphiareion. Showing Proscenium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Oropos: Theatre at Amphiareion from N.W.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phyle: general view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phyle: view over Attica".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleutherae: Gyphtokastro, general view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Corinth: Temple from N.E. (W.L. Enlargement No.4)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi: Substructure of Peribolos & Athenian Stoa. (W.L. Enlargement No. 6)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi: Castalian Spring".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi: Relief in the Museum".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: Monastery of St. Luke. The Church. West front".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: Monastery of St. Luke. The Church. S. side".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: Monastery of St. Luke. East end".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: Monastery of St. Luke. East end".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: Monastery of St. Luke. Gen. view fr S.E. Parnassus in background. (W.L. Enlargement No.9)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Helicon: (Hieron of the Muses) general view. Hill of Acra to right".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Helicon: (Hieron of the Muses) The Proscenium of the Theatre".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Helicon: (Hieron of the Muses) The Proscenium of the Theatre".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus: Hieron: Theatre: seats from below".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus: Hieron: Theatre: part of ring of orchestra".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mistra: ruins seen from Pantanassa".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mistra: Church of Pantanassa".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Laconia: views in Langada Pass".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Laconia: views in Langada Pass".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Laconia: views in Langada Pass".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Group of early objects: unidentified".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Olympieion from the Acropolis".