Thomas Allen, Serope Gurdjian, and the photographers Aristotelis and Konstantinos Rhomaides on a city street, Athens, 1891

Item Overview

Title

Thomas Allen, Serope Gurdjian, and the photographers Aristotelis and Konstantinos Rhomaides on a city street, Athens, 1891

Photographer

Sachtleben, William Lewis

Date Created

January 10, 1891

Date

1891-01-10

Collection

Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Notes

Description

Photograph of, L to R, Thomas Allen, Serope Gurdjian, and the two brothers Aristotelis and Konstantinos Rhomaides (photographers specializing in the documentation of archeological sites) on a narrow street in Athens, perhaps near the Rhomaides' atelier (listed in 1907 as "3 Place de la Constitution" which is now Constitution Square, or Syntagma Square).
Serope Armenag Gurdjian was an Armenian from Turkey who became a naturalized U.S. citizen and earned a college degree from Bowdoin College in 1877. Having been detained in Istanbul in October 1890 on suspicion of participating in a revolutionary committee, he was released based on his U.S. citizenship and then traveled to Athens, where he met and befriended William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen.
Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's stay in Athens before embarking on a bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: No. 11. Jan. 10, 1891. A view of the large and splendid Ateliers of Romaides [sic] in Athens. The two brothers, Romaides, Gurdjian, and Allen. An interior view time exposure.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Gurdjian, Serope A. (Serope Armenag), b. 1847
Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Rhomaides, Aristotelis, d. 1916?
Rhomaides, Konstantinos, d. 1900?

Location

Greece--Athens

Longitude

37.975551

Latitude

23.734776

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Photographers -- Greece -- Athens
Bicycle touring -- Greece