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 negative register reads: "Athens: Acropolis from SW"
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Peristyle of Parthenon".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Arcadian coin group by Damaphon".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Peiraeus: Eetionea, view".
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: "Hasluck memorial tablet".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Damascus: alleged 'straight street'".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Lebanon: Cedars".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens from Lykabbetos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thebes: with the cave of the Dragon".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Messene: Mt. Ithome on R. River Pamissos in foreground".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Messene: Slopes of Mt. Ithome. Walls of Messene".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Megalopolis: Theatre: River Helisson in distance".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "The Styx: Entrance to Gorge".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Great theatre seats".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Great theatre seats".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delos: Mosaic inscription".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Theatre in Eretria. Euboea. (photo: Dorpfeld)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Erechtheion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Constantinople: Golden Horn".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Constantinople: Golden Horn".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Constantinople: Mosque of Sultan Ahmet ( "Blue" Mosque)".
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".