William Sachtleben standing next to the tracks of the Trans-Bosphorus Railway on the route from Istanbul to İzmit, Turkey, 1891
Item Overview
- Title
- William Sachtleben standing next to the tracks of the Trans-Bosphorus Railway on the route from Istanbul to İzmit, Turkey, 1891
- Photographer
- Allen, Thomas Gaskell
- Date Created
- April 3, 1891
- Date
- 1891-04-03
- Collection
- Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Notes
- Description
-
Photograph of William Sachtleben in an open landscape with a Humber bicycle, standing next to the tracks of the Trans-Bosphorus Railway, on the route from Istanbul to İzmit, and holding an American flag. Thomas Allen's bicycle is in the foreground and a road with a stone bridge is on the right.
Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: No. 1. Lot. A. Scene on the Constantinople Ismid railroad. From Constantinople, Turkey, to Angora, Asia Minor. 53 Negatives.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs - Names
- Sachtleben, William Lewis
- Location
- Turkey--Kocaeli İli
- Longitude
- 40.789900
- Latitude
- 29.393921
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Bicycle touring -- Asia
Railroad tracks -- Turkey
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1841_0261
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hfqgh
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.