Photographer: Sachtleben, William Lewis / Subject: Greek temples -- Greece -- Athens - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View from west of William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen seated along the exterior wall of the Erechtheum (Erechtheion) with their bicycles parked near them. The porch of the Caryatids id visible above them.
Date:: March 13, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of William Sachtleben with his bicycle standing next to the south precinct wall of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. The poros block wall is strengthened by buttresses.
Date:: March 5, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of Thomas Allen, wearing a fez or tarboush type hat, riding a Humber bicycle on the Acropolis with the Parthenon visible behind him.
Date:: March 13, 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:: Photograph of William Sachtleben's bicycle parked next to a monumental fallen Corinthian capital at the Temple of Olympian Zeus. The Acropolis is visible in the background on the right.
Date:: February 27, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of William Sachtleben standing against a monumental fallen capital at the Temple of Olympian Zeus. The Acropolis is visible 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 remains of the Temple of Olympian Zeus facing SE. On the right are the small figures of (L) William Sachtleben with his bicycle (probably) and (R) Basilios Kapsambelis (probably) wearing a bowler hat.
Date:: February 27, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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

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

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

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