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: "Olympia: altar in Treasury terrace, in Treasury VIII".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia: small temple at W end of Treasury terrace".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia: NW corner of Stoa Poikile".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia: Boulouterion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia: SW processional gate from without".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia: SW processional gate, from within".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia: Bases of Roman statues in SW of Altis".
Part of a group of images from the BSA excavations at Plati 1913-1914. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Plati: LMIII house in A Court, with later walls removed".
An image from a group of images taken by F.W. Hasluck when investigated the 'Latin Monuments' on the island of Chios from 1907 to 1909. Original description in the SPHS register reads: "Chios: Museum, fragments of Genoese sculpture".
An image from a group of images taken by F.W. Hasluck when investigated the 'Latin Monuments' on the island of Chios from 1907 to 1909. Original description in the SPHS register reads: "Chios: Museum, fragments of Genoese sculpture".
An image from a group of images taken by F.W. Hasluck when investigated the 'Latin Monuments' on the island of Chios from 1907 to 1909. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "(S. Kensington) Genovse relief of S. George".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Pithos found near Salonika".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "A Greek shepherdess (for types)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "A Greek peasant (for types)".