About the SPHS BSA 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: "Constantinople: S. Sophia interior".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Budrum castle & harbour".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Pergamon: theatre".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Assos: Agora".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Chacroneia: the lion as re-erected".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Euryalus: entrance. (Syracuse)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Dionysiae Theatre. Stage of Phaeobus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: street of tombs".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Constantinople".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Syracuse cathedral: formerly temple of Artemis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Demirli: Phrygian monument at".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mosaic Cave Canem".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Constantinople, S. Sophia, general view, exterior".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Constantinople, S. Sophia, capital & impost".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Constantinople, S. Sophia, jamb of door".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ravenna mosaic, Theodora and train".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ravenna mosaic, Justinian and train".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Constantinople, SS Sergius & Bacchus caps frieze and inscription".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aezani, Roman bridge".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hamam Kaja Phrygian tomb".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Agrigentum, temple of Concord, interior".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Agrigentum, temple-like tomb on high podium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Agrigentum, fallen Atlas".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Arslan Kaya: Phrygian monument at".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Bakshish: Phyrgian monument at".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aezani: temple from NW".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Monumentum Ancyranum".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Bridge of Justinian: near Ada Bazaar Sanjarius river".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Lions in court of Kalkhane, Konia".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor Akchehir Tomb of Nostradin Koutsas".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor Angora Temple of Augustus exterior wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Konia Tekki of Mevlevi dervishes".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "S Leonardo (Apulia), apse of church".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Perachora: proto-Corinthian fragments, early 7th century".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Perachora: scarabs under surface".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Corfú: Berard: Dans le sillage. Pl. 80".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Lions in court of Kalkhane, Konia".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thebes: with the cave of the Dragon".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Arslan Kaya: Phrygian monument at".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Bakshish: Phyrgian monument at".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Naxian wind syphon. modern".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Naxos: from sea".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Naxos: view of islet from".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Naxos: Portico on islet".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Naxos: Portico on islet".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Naxos: the Colossus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Naxos: the Colossus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Naxos: the Colossus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Naxos: the Colossus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Naxos, the Colossus"