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Description:: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: View of Thomas Allen standing next to his Humber bicycle in the Hippodrome of Constantinople (Sultanahmet Meydanı) as 2 other men walk by. He is standing next to a circular iron fence within which is the Serpent Column (or Delphi Tripod or Plataean Tripod), an ancient bronze column originally part of an ancient Greek Sacrificial tripod in Delphi. A wall and minaret of the Sultanahmet Camii (Mosque of Sultan Ahmet I) is on the right and in the background on the left is the Egyptian Obelisk of Thutmose III (Thutmosis), sometimes called the Obelisk of Theodosius.
Date:: March 21, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: November 1891 to December 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: November 3, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of William Sachtleben on his Humber bicycle on a wooden bridge over the Karasu (Kara River), the western branch of the Euphrates River near Erzurum. This image appears to be a double-exposure.
Date:: June 14, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of an inn along the route from Geyve to Beypazari. Sachtleben and Thomas Allen's Humber bicycles are parked against the inn, a building constructed of wood with hay or thatching visible on portions of the roof. William Sachtleben is in a shadow next to a horse on the left; three Turkish travelers and two horses are on the right.
Date:: April 8, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: April 12, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: July 19, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph of William Sachtleben with his Humber bicycle in the ruins of a Seljuk caravansarai, or han, during his ride from Kayseri to Sivas. A child and another person are in the foreground.
Date:: April 25, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description:: Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: June 17, 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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