William Sachtleben gazing at the old bridge on the road from Sivas to Erzincan, Turkey, 1891
Item Overview
- Title
- William Sachtleben gazing at the old bridge on the road from Sivas to Erzincan, Turkey, 1891
- Photographer
- Allen, Thomas Gaskell
- Date Created
- June 1891
- 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 with his Humber bicycle gazing at the old arched stone bridge on the road from the mountains east of Geyve to Ankara. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: No. 17. April 7, 1891. An old style Turkish bridge on the road to Angora. In the valley across the Geiveh range. A close at-hand view of Turkish bridge building.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs - Subjects
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Bridges -- Turkey
Bicycle touring -- Asia - Names
- Sachtleben, William Lewis
- Location
- Turkey
- Longitude
- 39.749434
- Latitude
- 38.232422
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1841_0269
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hfqrn
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.