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.
View of Olga, Queen, consort of George I, King of the Hellenes leaving the Church of the Savior of Lykodemos in Athens. She is escorted by an unidentified man and an elderly women is descending the steps on the left. The wheel of a waiting carriage and coachman are in the left foreground. On the right are a man in military attire, a man and boy and a man in formal attire including white gloves and who holds a top hat at his side.
View from west of William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen seated along the exterior wall of the Erechtheum (Erechtheion) with their bicycles parked near them. The porch of the Caryatids id visible above them.
Photograph of William Sachtleben with his bicycle standing next to the south precinct wall of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. The poros block wall is strengthened by buttresses.
View of 2 guards and 5 others outside of the Tsisdarakis Mosque on Areos and Pandrossou Streets (also known as Tzami Tzistaraki, and Mosque of the Lower Pazari, 18th century). One guard poses with the bicycle of William Sachtleben.
William Sachtleben exploring the southern part of the ruins of the Stoa of Attalos. With one leg raised on a block of stone, he is reading or writing in a book propped on his leg. A house is visible beyond the ruins.
View towards 2 columns at the west end of the Olympieion, with William Sachtleben standing with his bicycle in the middle ground, and a man wearing a bowler hat (perhaps Basilios Kapsambelis) and a Greek woman in the background.
View of William Sachtleben standing with his bicycle next to the Arch of Hadrian in an open area with houses in the background and the Acropolis in the distance on the left. He appears to be looking at a [guide?] book.
Photograph of Archibald Loudon Snowden (L), United States Minister to Greece, Romania, and Serbia, with his Charles Randolph Snowden (R), holding the handle bar of a Humber bicycle, and William Sachtleben, with a bicycle, in front of the United States Embassy in Athens.
Photograph of William Sachtleben's bicycle parked next to a monumental fallen Corinthian capital at the Temple of Olympian Zeus. The Acropolis is visible in the background on the right.
Photograph of William Sachtleben standing against a monumental fallen capital at the Temple of Olympian Zeus. The Acropolis is visible in the background.
Photograph of William Sachtleben at the Stoa of Attalos. With one leg raised on a block of stone, he is reading or writing in a book propped on his leg. A house is visible beyond the ruins.
William Sachtleben standing next to his bicycle at the spring Kallirrhóē, probably in an area south of the Olympieion. Water issues from a narrow channel in the rock into a pool.
William Sachtleben with his bicycle (R) in the forecourt on the western side of the Library of Hadrian standing next to a guard, conversing with a crowd attracted by his photographing activity. The Tsisdarakis Mosque (also known as Tzami Tzistaraki, and Mosque of the Lower Pazari, 18th century) is in the background (later the Mouseio Hellēnikēs Laikēs Technēs or Museum of Greek Folk Art).
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 of 2 guards at the Street of Tombs in the Kerameikos area of Athens. The bicycle of the photographer, William Lewis Sachtleben, is between them and ancient ruins of the archeological site are visible beyond.
William Sachtleben with his bicycle at the 4 remaining standing columns at the Library of Hadrian. A boy and little girl are on a path in the foreground and a man is standing in the background.
View of a landscape with four bicycles in the middle distance across a lawn against a line of shrubbery with one man visible in the center. Possibly in Athens after Sachtleben and Allen had purchased 2 additional bicycles and leant their 2 older bicycles to friends for rides around the city.
William Sachtleben between 2 Humber bicycles (center), with Thomas Allen seated on a block of marble (R) and a Greek guard in a landscape strewn with column drums and other architectural debris in front of the south side of the Parthenon.
William Sachtleben (center) with his Humber bicycle, with a Greek man (R) and another man seen from the back viewing the panorama of Athens from the Acropolis facing SE. Another bicycle in the foreground is that of Thomas Allen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).