Basilios Kapsambelis and William Sachtleben in costume for Carnival, Piraeus, 1891

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

Description: 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.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: 21 / 55
Text from negative sleeve: No. 52. March 15, 1891: Kapsambelis and Sachtleben as they appeared in the carnival.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Names: 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: Carnival -- Greece -- Piraeus
Bicycle touring -- Greece
Municipal Theater Square (Piraeus, Greece)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1841_0189
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hfn1t
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Rights statement: public domain
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.