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.
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).
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.
View of William Sachtleben at the market in a small plaza in lower Athens. Buildings lining 2 sides of the plaza are visible in the background; a gazebo and small booths are behind Sachtleben in the plaza.
View of William Sachtleben with his Humber bicycle (L) and Thomas Allen with his bicycle, with Acropolis guards and others at the top of the steps of the Propylaea. Sachtleben and Allen are trying to gain access to the Acropolis. The Parthenon is visible in the background. The guard in the foreground is wearing traditional Greek dress including a white pleated foustanella, a white shirt with wide sleeves, and a fermeli (vest).
William Lewis Sachtleben conversing with women and children on a street in Athens. Sachtleben stands next to his bicycle facing the women and girls who are standing in front of a stone building with a humble wooden addition. A building is in the background.
View of William Sachtleben (L) and Thomas Allen on bicycle, Greek guards in pleated white foustanella garments (center) and three others (background L) in front of the Parthenon, with large column drums (?) and other architectural debris in the foreground and scattered across the landscape.
View of three photographers, including 2 women, working with 2 cameras on tripods on the Acropolis. The southwest portion of the Parthenon is visible behind them.
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.
View of William Sachtleben standing in front of a doorway of the Tower of the Winds with his bicycle. The doorway is secure by a wooden slat gate and is flanked by 2 broken, fluted columns. Broken column drums line the base of the tower.
Photograph of Serope Gurdjian (probably) seated on a column base at the southeast end of the colossal Olympieion. A bicycle is parked next to him in front of a Corinthian column.
View of William Sachtleben at the Temple of Hephaestus with his bicycle. The Hephaisteion is a Greek Doric peripteral temple located in the Agora of Athens on Agoraios Kolonos Hill.
View of the bicycle of William Sachtleben on the throne of Hadrian at the Theater of Dionysus Eleuthereus. Sachtleben's bent lower leg with a [guide?] book resting on it is visible on the left.
View of William Sachtleben (L) and Thomas Allen with their Humber bicycles, an Acropolis guard (R, wearing a white pleated foustanella) and 3 others in front of the porch of the Caryatids of the Erechtheum (Erechtheion).
View of Thomas Allen riding his Humber bicycle within the east end of the north colonnade of the Parthenon as William Sachtleben, dismounted from his bicycle, watches.
William Sachtleben (R) and Thomas Allen riding their Humber bicycles within the north colonnade of the Parthenon with 2 Acropolis guards visible in the background.
View of Thomas Allen (L) and William Sachtleben with their Humber bicycles in the portico of the Erechtheum (Erechtheion). A couple sit in a small doorway to the right of the main portal.
Photograph of Archibald Loudon Snowden, United States Minister to Greece, Romania, and Serbia, giving a command to his dog Nibbings, and William Sachtleben with his bicycle in front of the U. S. Embassy in Athens.
View of William Sachtleben next to an Acropolis guard who is elevated on a truncated column with two Humber bicycles parked in front of them. Another guard is seated on a truncated column on the left, next to Thomas Allen and a third guard seated on a column resting on its side. Two of the guards are dressed in white pleated foustanella garments.
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].
Photograph of Thomas Allen (L) and William Sachtleben racing their Humber bicycles in front of the Parthenon (L) on the Acropolis as 2 seated Greek guards watch. The guards wear traditional dress including a white pleated foustanella and white socks.
View of a Thomas Allen standing on a sidewalk across the street from the mansion of archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (located at: Iliou Melathron, Leoforos Eleftheriou Venizelou (Panepistimiou) 12, GR-106 71 Athens).
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.
The building in the background was once the main university building. It is called the Propylaea, was designed by architect Theofil Hansen, and now serves as a ceremony hall and rectory.
Photograph of Archibald Loudon Snowden, United States Minister to Greece, Romania, and Serbia, with his dog, Nibbings, standing with his bicycle in front of the United States Embassy in Athens.
View through a crowd from a portal of the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Annunciation in Athens towards clerics at the head of an approaching Greek funeral procession
Group portrait of William Sachtleben (3rd from L) with his Humber bicycle and an Acropolis guard, Thomas Allen with his bicycle and an Acropolis guard, and a 5th man on the L, posing on the spot where the statue of Athena Promachos once stood. The 2 guards wear traditional Greek dress including a white pleated foustanella. A panoramic view of Athens is visible in the background.
Photograph of Thomas Allen (L) and William Sachtleben conversing with a Greek guard on the Acropolis next to the Parthenon as another guard watches. Their Humber bicycles are parked next to them. The guards wear traditional dress including white pleated foustanella and white socks. A column drum is in the foreground.
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.
The Roman period sarcophagus probably dates to the later second century CE, and was found near the Dipylon Gate. It is now at the Kerameikos Museum (Archaiologiko Mouseio Kerameikou) in Athens.
View of Thomas Allen at the Propylaea on his Humber bicycle on top of a large block of marble. An Acropolis guard dressed in a white pleated foustanella and seated on another block of marble observes him. Another man is visible behind the guard. View from south.
View of William Sachtleben (L) and Thomas Allen with their Humber bicycles on Philopappos Hill near the so-called Prison of Socrates, with the Acropolis in the distance