William Sachtleben and Basilios Kapsambelis at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, 1891

Title: William Sachtleben and Basilios Kapsambelis at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, 1891
Photographer: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Date Created: February 27, 1891
Date: 1891-02-27
Collection: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description: View of the remains of the Temple of Olympian Zeus facing SE. On the right are the small figures of (L) William Sachtleben with his bicycle (probably) and (R) Basilios Kapsambelis (probably) wearing a bowler hat.
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. 33. Feb. 27, 1891. The cluster of columns in the ruins of the Olympeion. This magnificent temple was called by Aristotle "a work of despotic grandeur."

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Names: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Kapsambelis, Basilios Georgiou, 1866-1929
Olympieion (Athens, Greece)
Location: Greece--Athens
Longitude: 37.969453
Latitude: 23.733256
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_0217
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hfnzs
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Rights statement: public domain
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.