White landscape with men around cart or flatbed loaded with white mounds (salt?), Asia, 1891

Item Overview

Title

White landscape with men around cart or flatbed loaded with white mounds (salt?), Asia, 1891

Photographer

Sachtleben, William Lewis

Date Created

1891

Date

1891

Collection

Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Notes

Description

Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
View of a white landscape with water in the foreground and men around a large cart or flatbed loaded with white mounds. A dog looks towards the photographer whose shadow appears in the water.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: 12768 / 82

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

Asia

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Bicycle touring -- Asia