William Sachtleben standing next to the "Adji Tschai" river en route from Dizaj Khalil to Tabrīz, Iran, 1891
Item Overview
- Title
- William Sachtleben standing next to the "Adji Tschai" river en route from Dizaj Khalil to Tabrīz, Iran, 1891
- Date Created
- July 15, 1891
- Date
- 1891-07-15
- Collection
- Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Notes
- Description
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Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Photograph of William Sachtleben standing next to his parked Humber bicycle beside the wide "Adji Tschai" river en route from Dizaj Khalil to Tabriz. Thomas Allen (?) is pushing a bicycle in the river, is approaching Sachtleben. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: No. 8. July 15, 1891. Crossing the Adji Tschai (river) near the village of Kuchak Mayan on the way to Tabrīz. Few bridges in Persia.
Handwritten on negative: 4498 / 9
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs - Names
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Sachtleben, William Lewis
Allen, Thomas Gaskell - Location
- Iran
- Longitude
- 38.212288
- Latitude
- 46.075287
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Bicycle touring -- Asia
Rivers -- Iran
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1841_0096
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hfhts
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.