Thera (ancient city): Theatre excavations

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 03/2279.6126
Level Item
Description Glass lantern slide, standard 3.25 x 3.25 inch square.
Dimensions 8 x 8 cm
Place Ancient Thera
Thera Island
Dates 1906
Donor/Creator Brown, Mr Adam
Scope and Content Part of a group of images donated by the Argonaut Camera Club, taken on excursions and cruises in Greece and Asia Minor. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thera: theatre, excavations". The slide has been cropped top, bottom and right side from the negative.
Notes The image may come from an Easter cruise of the Hellenic Travellers Club on the S.Y. Argonaut ca. 1906. The slide cropped out the notches, top and bottom, from the negative. Additional cropping on top and right side.
Further information Hellenic Travellers Club
The Hellenic Travellers Club consisted of school teachers and others interested in educational cruises to the Eastern Mediterranean. Initiated by Henry Lunn, the club was formalised in 1905, but grew out of experimental cruises called Argonaut Cruises (after the steam yacht) - first in 1901 and then in 1903 and 1904. Annual spring cruises began in 1905, continued until the First World War and resumed in 1924 before finally halting with advent of the Second World War

Many of the passengers from 1901 onward were keen photographers - initially referred to as the Argonaut Camera Club - and a number of their images were donated to the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies or made their way into private collections. The Hellenic Travellers Club produced annual proceedings which published many of the lectures given on board, illustrated with photographs from the tours. See: Harlan, D. 2018. "More than Armchair Travellers" ARGO 8: 19-21.
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/3767.6126], Thera (ancient city): Theatre excavations, 1906
Reference 1907 JHS 27: 3rd accession to 1904 slide catalogue. lxxiii.SPHS 6126. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 29.SPHS 6126. Link to article