View of a porter in a striped shirt, sash and trousers, with a platter balanced on his head and holding an object (fish?), standing next to the entrance of the Henry Gaze & Sons Universal Travel Office. Signage advertising travel excursions on the wall behind him is in French. To left there is a window with metal bars and are plants in small terracotta pots on a stone block. The area in front is paved in stone.
William Lewis Sachtleben’s diary, notebook “No. 10”, covers a portion of their journey through the Armenian area of Turkey from April 12 to May 9 (there is a 2-page reading list at the end). During this time they rode from Ankara (Angora in the diary) to Sivas, to Merzifon (Mersovan in the diary).