Serope Gurdjian, Basilios Kapsambelis and Thomas Allen taking refreshment at the railroad station, Athens, 1891

Item Overview

Title

Serope Gurdjian, Basilios Kapsambelis and Thomas Allen taking refreshment at the railroad station, Athens, 1891

Photographer

Sachtleben, William Lewis

Date Created

January 10, 1891

Collection

Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Notes

Description

Basilios Georgiou Kapsambelis was Chief Quartermaster of the Royal Navy in Greece; he was also president of the "Piraeus Cycling Association".
Photograph of Serope Gurdjian (L), Basilios Kapsambelis (center) and Thomas Allen (R) taking refreshment at an outdoor cafe table at the railroad station in Athens with a bicycle parked in front of them.
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. 13. Jan. 10, 1891. Another view taken in Athens at the RR Station. Allen, Kapsanbelis and Gurdjian cooling off.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Subjects

Cafes -- Greece -- Athens
Bicycle touring -- Greece

Names

Kapsambelis, Basilios Georgiou, 1866-1929
Gurdjian, Serope A. (Serope Armenag), b. 1847
Allen, Thomas Gaskell

Location

Greece--Athens

Resource type

still image