Basilios Kapsambelis and William Sachtleben in costume for Carnival, Piraeus, 1891
Item Overview
- Title
- Basilios Kapsambelis and William Sachtleben in costume for Carnival, Piraeus, 1891
- Photographer
- Sachtleben, William Lewis
- Date Created
- March 15, 1891
- Date
- 1891-03-15
- Collection
- Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Notes
- Description
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Basilios Georgiou Kapsambelis was Chief Quartermaster of the Royal Navy in Greece; he was also president of the "Piraeus Cycling Association".
Photograph of Basilios Kapsambelis [L?] and William Sachtleben in costume for Carnival in Piraeus, each with a bicycle. A boy with a bicycle is on the left and a man stands on the right. They are in the Municipal Theater Square with the Greek Orthodox church of Saint Constantine and Helen in the background. The church is located at Karaiskou 109.
Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's stay in Athens before embarking on a bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
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
Church of St. Constantine and Helen (Piraeus, Greece)
Kapsambelis, Basilios Georgiou, 1866-1929 - Location
- Greece--Piraeus
- Longitude
- 37.943085
- Latitude
- 23.648018
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Carnival -- Greece -- Piraeus
Bicycle touring -- Greece
Municipal Theater Square (Piraeus, Greece)
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1841_0189
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hfn1t
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.