View of the Acropolis from Philopappos Hill (ancient name Mouseion Hill) south west of the Acropolis in Athens. William Sachtleben is in the middle ground with his bicycle.
Photograph of a Greek woman in traditional dress walking on a nearly deserted street in Athens. She wears a long dress or skirt and blouse with embroidered sleeves, an embroidered apron, a long vest and a head scarf. A boy behind her and next to a Humber bicycle smiles at the photographer.
Photograph of a Greek woman in traditional dress walking on a nearly deserted street in Athens. She wears a long dress or skirt and blouse with embroidered sleeves, an embroidered apron, a long vest and a head scarf. A man ahead of her on the right smiles at the photographer.
Serope Armenag Gurdjian was an Armenian from Turkey who became a naturalized U.S. citizen and earned a college degree from Bowdoin College in 1877. Having been detained in Istanbul in October 1890 on suspicion of participating in a revolutionary committee, he was released based on his U.S. citizenship and then traveled to Athens, where he met and befriended William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen.