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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 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). Serope Armenag Gurdjian was an Armenian from Turkey who became a naturalized U.S. citizen and earned a college degree from Bowdoin College in 1877. Having been detained in Istanbul in October 1890 on suspicion of participating in a revolutionary committee, he was released based on his U.S. citizenship and then traveled to Athens, where he met and befriended William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen. Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's stay in Athens before embarking on a bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr. Text from negative sleeve: No. 11. Jan. 10, 1891. A view of the large and splendid Ateliers of Romaides [sic] in Athens. The two brothers, Romaides, Gurdjian, and Allen. An interior view time exposure.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1841_0004 ark:/21198/zz002hfdp8
Subject
Photographers--Greece--Athens Bicycle touring--Greece Gurdjian, Serope A. (Serope Armenag), b. 1847 Allen, Thomas Gaskell Rhomaides, Aristotelis, d. 1916? Rhomaides, Konstantinos, d. 1900?
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