Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: Sachtleben, William Lewis - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: 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.
Date:: March 13, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: 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.
Date:: March 13, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: This photograph was most probably taken in 1895, when William Sachtleben was in Turkey to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum. Sachtleben's 1891 photographs of his bicycle tour across Asia have a circular format.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: 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.
Date:: January 12, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: November 13, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: 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
Date:: March 13, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of William Sachtleben on his Humber bicycle on a wooden bridge over the Karasu (Kara River), the western branch of the Euphrates River near Erzurum. This image appears to be a double-exposure.
Date:: June 14, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of an inn along the route from Geyve to Beypazari. Sachtleben and Thomas Allen's Humber bicycles are parked against the inn, a building constructed of wood with hay or thatching visible on portions of the roof. William Sachtleben is in a shadow next to a horse on the left; three Turkish travelers and two horses are on the right.
Date:: April 8, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: April 12, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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