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Landscape with four bicycles across a lawn against a line of shrubbery with one man visible, (Athens?), 1891

Description:
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.
Date:
1891
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:
Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Landscape with four bicycles across a lawn against a line of shrubbery with one man visible, (Athens?), 1891

Porter in front of the Henry Gaze & Sons Universal Travel Office, Turkey, 1895

Description:
View of a porter in a striped shirt, sash and trousers, with a platter balanced on his head and holding an object (fish?), standing next to the entrance of the Henry Gaze & Sons Universal Travel Office. Signage advertising travel excursions on the wall behind him is in French. To left there is a window with metal bars and are plants in small terracotta pots on a stone block. The area in front is paved in stone.
Date:
1891
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:
Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Porter in front of the Henry Gaze & Sons Universal Travel Office, Turkey, 1895

William Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora, Athens, 1891

Description:
Photograph of William Lewis Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora in Athens, in front of three of the colossal figures of Giants and Tritons on pedestals. Sachtleben stands next to his bicycle and seven or so small children are behind him looking toward him. Two houses can be seen in the background.
Date:
January 1891
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:
Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
William Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora, Athens, 1891

Panoramic view of Lycabettus and the city of Athens, looking northeast, 1891

Description:
Mount Lycabettus, also known as Lycabettos, Lykabettos or Lykavittos (Greek: Λυκαβηττός, pronounced [likaviˈtos]), is a Cretaceous limestone hill in Athens, Greece. At 277 meters (908 feet) above sea level, the hill is the highest point in the city that surrounds it. Pine trees cover its base, and at its two peaks are the 19th century Chapel of St. George, a theatre, and a restaurant [Wikipedia].
Date:
[between January 3, 1891-March 19, 1891]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:
Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Panoramic view of Lycabettus and the city of Athens, looking northeast, 1891

Thomas Allen, Serope Gurdjian, and the photographers Aristotelis and Konstantinos Rhomaides on a city street, Athens, 1891

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
Thomas Allen, Serope Gurdjian, and the photographers Aristotelis and Konstantinos Rhomaides on a city street, Athens, 1891

William Sachtleben examining the grave relief of Demetria and Pamphile, Athens, 1891

Description:
Photograph of William Lewis Sachtleben examining the marble grave relief (stele) of Demetria and Pamphile (ca. 325-310 BC.) at the ancient cemetery of Kerameikos in Athens. Sachtleben leans against the monument as he reaches to touch the leg of the throne of Pamphile with his right hand; his bicycle rests against his side. He holds a small book in his left hand and another open book rests on the base of the monument. Ancient ruins are visible in the landscape beyond.
Date:
January 15, 1891
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:
Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
William Sachtleben examining the grave relief of Demetria and Pamphile, Athens, 1891

Serope Gurdjian deciphering the inscription on a Roman sarcophagus near the Street of Tombs, Athens, 1891

Description:
Photograph of Serope Gurdjian, a sightseeing companion of William Lewis Sachtleben and Thomas Gaskell Allen, in the Kerameikos area of Athens on top of a recently excavated Roman sarcophagus near the Street of Tombs in Athens deciphering the inscription. A bicycle is parked against a mound in front of the tomb and a low stone wall is in visible the background.
Date:
January 15, 1891
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:
Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Serope Gurdjian deciphering the inscription on a Roman sarcophagus near the Street of Tombs, Athens, 1891

William Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora, Athens, 1891

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
William Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora, Athens, 1891

William Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora, Athens, 1891

Description:
Photograph of William Lewis Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora in Athens. Sachtleben stands with his bicycle next to a colossal statue on a pedestal. Another unidentified man stands on the left. A high stone wall and two houses are visible in the background.
Date:
January 28, 1891
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:
Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
William Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora, Athens, 1891

Serope Gurdjian standing at the Library of Hadrian, Athens, 1891

Description:
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.
Date:
February 24, 1891
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:
Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Serope Gurdjian standing at the Library of Hadrian, Athens, 1891

William Sachtleben with his bicycle at the Library of Hadrian next to the Tsisdarakis Mosque, Athens, 1891

Description:
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).
Date:
February 24,1891
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:
Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
William Sachtleben with his bicycle at the Library of Hadrian next to the Tsisdarakis Mosque, Athens, 1891

Tsisdarakis Mosque, Athens, 1891

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
Tsisdarakis Mosque, Athens, 1891