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Description:: View of William Sachtleben (center), Basilios Kapsambelis (right) and another cyclist riding bicycles on a tree-lined road in or near Athens.
Date:: [between January 1891-March 1891]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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

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

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

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

Description:: Basilios Georgiou Kapsambelis was Chief Quartermaster of the Royal Navy in Greece; he was also president of the "Piraeus Cycling Association".
Date:: January 10, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: 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.
Date:: January 11, 1891
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:: View of William Sachtleben standing next to his bicycle at the modern gate to the Street of Tombs, with a man standing a few feet behind him.
Date:: January 15, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: 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.
Date:: January 15, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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