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

Description:: 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).
Date:: March 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 stay in Athens before embarking on a bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: March 13, 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 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.
Date:: March 13, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Thomas Allen (L) and William Sachtleben with their Humber bicycles on the south side of the Parthenon.
Date:: March 13, 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:: 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:: 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:: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: December 19, 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:: December 17, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Palace of Prince Romanov: During the 19th century Prince Nikolay Konstantinovicha Romanov, a first cousin of Alexander III of Russia was banished to Tashkent. His palace still survives in the centre of the city.
Date:: November 22, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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