Philadelphia: View from the top of the hill

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1242.3158
Level Item
Description Glass negative, full plate size, a copy negative.
Condition Black paint and paper used to cover the sky, presumably to remove imperfections.
Dimensions 21.5 x 16 cm
Place Philadelphia
Dates 1873
Donor/Creator Trotman, Corporal J.
Trotman, Mrs
Scope and Content Part of a collection of images photographed by Corporal Trotman around the area of Ephesus and the Seven Cities of Asia Minor, taken between 1871-1873. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Philadelphia: from the top of the hill".
Notes Date based on Corporal Trotman's time at Ephesus based on entries in the 1877 book, Discoveries at Ephesus by J.T. Wood. Trotman was with Wood for three seasons from 1872 until early 1874. Wood indicates that Trotman used the summer of 1873 to travel to the 'seven cities' of Asia Minor to photograph. The images were made available to the Hellenic Society (by Mrs Trotman according to the negative register) in 1892 (JHS 13: xxxvii). SPHS Lectures & Slide Sets: B.I. and I.A. Lawrence, ca. 1933. The Expedition of Cyrus & Xenophon's Anabasis. Slide number 20.
Reference 1904 JHS 24: Catalogue of Slides. xc.SPHS 3158. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 19.SPHS 3158. Link to article