Location: Greece--Athens / Names: Sachtleben, William Lewis - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: William Sachtleben with his bicycle on a mosaic pavement at the Library of Hadrian. A father with 2 children and another man are in the background.
Date:: February 24, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: 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.
Date:: February 26, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: 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.
Date:: February 26, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: 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.
Date:: February 26, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: View of William Sachtleben with his bicycle and an unidentified man at the Theater of Dionysus Eleuthereus. The Acropolis is visible in the distance.
Date:: February 27, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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

Description:: 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.
Date:: February 24, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: View of the Theater of Dionysus Eleuthereus from the southwest. William Sachtleben with his bicycle and an unidentified man are in the stage area.
Date:: March 1, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Basilios Georgiou Kapsambelis was Chief Quartermaster of the Royal Navy in Greece; he was also president of the "Piraeus Cycling Association".
Date:: March 13, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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

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