William Sachtleben at the summit of "Kat-run-tepe" near the Lidjessy Mines with a kavass, Bachelor Creswell and Mr. Rowe, Şebinkarahisar vicinity, Turkey, 1891

Item Overview

Title

William Sachtleben at the summit of "Kat-run-tepe" near the Lidjessy Mines with a kavass, Bachelor Creswell and Mr. Rowe, Şebinkarahisar vicinity, Turkey, 1891

Photographer

Sachtleben, William Lewis

Date Created

June 7, 1891

Date

1891-06-07

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.
William Sachtleben holding an American (?) flag at the summit of "Kat-run-tepe" with Bachelor Creswell (holding telescope), Creswell's kavass (L; an armed police-officer or courier such as it was usual to engage when travelling in Turkey), and Mr. Rowe (a Lidjessy Mines employee) holding a revolver.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: 1602
Text from negative sleeve: No. 25. June 7, 1891. An incident of our visit to the Lidjessey [sic] mines. On the summit of Kat-run-tepe. Creswell, Rowe, Cavass and Sachtleben

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Sachtleben, William Lewis
Rowe, Mr.
Creswell, Bachelor

Location

Turkey--Şebinkarahisar

Longitude

40.289788

Latitude

38.420989

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Mountaineering -- Turkey -- Şebinkarahisar
Bicycle touring -- Asia