William Sachtleben with his bicycle in front of the Olympieion, Athens, 1891

Title: William Sachtleben with his bicycle in front of the Olympieion, Athens, 1891
Photographer: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Date Created: February 26, 1891
Date: 1891-02-26
Collection: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description: View towards 2 columns at the west end of the Olympieion, with William Sachtleben standing with his bicycle in the middle ground, and a man wearing a bowler hat (perhaps Basilios Kapsambelis) and a Greek woman in the background.
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. 24. Feb. 26, 1891. Two of the lofty Corinthian columns at the ruins of Olympian Zeus.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Names: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Olympieion (Athens, Greece)
Location: Greece--Athens
Longitude: 37.969478
Latitude: 23.732757
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Greek temples -- Greece -- Athens
Bicycle touring -- Greece
Roman temples -- Greece -- Athens

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1841_0209
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hfnpn
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Rights statement: public domain
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.