Genre: black-and-white photographs / Location: Greece--Athens / Date: 1891 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of Thomas Allen and William Sachtleben gazing down the circuit wall of the Acropolis on the south side with the Parthenon visible behind them.
Date:: March 13, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of Irving J. Manatt (R), Consul General in Athens, his daughter Winifred on a bicycle and Thomas Allen in the courtyard of the Consulate.
Date:: March 14, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Thomas Allen (L) and William Sachtleben next to a mound of cannonballs on the Acropolis. Sachtleben, bicycle in hand, gazes at the mound as Allen lifts one cannonball into the air. A row of capitals rest on a low wall in the background where Allen's bicycle is visible.
Date:: March 13, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Crowd opening a path for William Sachtleben to the Tsisdarakis Mosque (also known as Tzami Tzistaraki, and Mosque of the Lower Pazari, 18th century) on Areos and Pandrossou Streets. The front wheel of the bicycle of Sachtleben or of Thomas Allen is visible in the open path. The mosque later became the Mouseio Hellēnikēs Laikēs Technēs or Museum of Greek Folk Art.
Date:: February 24, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's stay in Athens before embarking on a bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: February 26, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Distant view from NW towards Thomas Allen (L) and William Sachtleben with their bicycles in the portico of the Erechtheum (Erechtheion) with the south porch of the caryatids visible in the distance. A couple sit in a small doorway to the right of the main portal. Marble architectural blocks are lined up on the ground.
Date:: March 13, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: The center of the Agora was open until a theater was built there, called the Odeion of Agrippa. It was destroyed by fire in A.D. 267 and in about A.D. 400 the Stoa of the Giants (also known at the Palace of the Giants or the Gymnasium) was built using the colossal Giant and Triton statues from the debris of the Odeion of Agrippa on its north side.
Date:: January 28, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of Archibald Loudon Snowden (L), United States minister to Greece, Romania, and Serbia, with his dog, Nibbings, and William Sachtleben, standing with his bicycle in front of the United States Embassy in Athens.
Date:: March 12, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of Thomas Allen (probably), wearing a fez or tarboush type hat, with a new Humber bicycle, standing next to a Greek man in traditional dress including a white pleated foustanella, white shirt with wide sleeves, white socks and pointed shoes called tsarouhia.
Date:: March 12, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of, L to R, Thomas Allen, Serope Gurdjian, and the two brothers Aristotelis and Konstantinos Rhomaides (photographers specializing in the documentation of archeological sites) on a narrow street in Athens, perhaps near the Rhomaides' atelier (listed in 1907 as "3 Place de la Constitution" which is now Constitution Square, or Syntagma Square).
Date:: January 10, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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