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.
William Sachtleben between 2 Humber bicycles (center), with Thomas Allen seated on a block of marble (R) and a Greek guard in a landscape strewn with column drums and other architectural debris in front of the south side of the Parthenon.
William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 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.
William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 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.
William Sachtleben (center) with his Humber bicycle, with a Greek man (R) and another man seen from the back viewing the panorama of Athens from the Acropolis facing SE. Another bicycle in the foreground is that of Thomas Allen.
Photograph of Thomas Allen and William Sachtleben gazing down the circuit wall of the Acropolis on the south side with the Parthenon visible behind them.
The Gūr-e Amīr or Guri Amir is a mausoleum of the Asian conqueror Tamerlane (also known as Timur) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. [Note]Photograph of William Sachtleben or Thomas Allen riding past the Gur-Ėmir mausoleum during a bicycle tour as two locals watch.
Thomas Allen (L) and William Sachtleben next to a mound of cannonballs on the Acropolis. Sachtleben, bicycle in hand, gazes at the mound as Allen lifts one cannonball into the air. A row of capitals rest on a low wall in the background where Allen's bicycle is visible.
Distant view from NW towards Thomas Allen (L) and William Sachtleben with their bicycles in the portico of the Erechtheum (Erechtheion) with the south porch of the caryatids visible in the distance. A couple sit in a small doorway to the right of the main portal. Marble architectural blocks are lined up on the ground.
Photograph of Archibald Loudon Snowden (L), United States minister to Greece, Romania, and Serbia, with his dog, Nibbings, and William Sachtleben, standing with his bicycle in front of the United States Embassy in Athens.
Photograph of William Sachtleben and others inside the Buruciye Medresesi (also known as Şifaiye Medresesi; located in a plaza on Osman Pasa Cd. near Sirer Cd.).
View of William Sachtleben at the market in a small plaza in lower Athens. Buildings lining 2 sides of the plaza are visible in the background; a gazebo and small booths are behind Sachtleben in the plaza.
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).
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.
Photograph of William Sachtleben in an open landscape with a Humber bicycle, standing next to the tracks of the Trans-Bosphorus Railway, on the route from Istanbul to İzmit, and holding an American flag. Thomas Allen's bicycle is in the foreground and a road with a stone bridge is on the right.
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.