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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of William Lewis Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora in Athens, in front of three of the colossal figures of Giants and Tritons on pedestals. Sachtleben stands next to his bicycle and seven or so small children are behind him looking toward him. Two houses can be seen in the background. The center of the Agora was open until a theater was build there, called the Odeion of Agrippa. It was destroyed by fire in A.D. 267 and in about A.D. 400 the Stoa of the Giants (also known at the Palace of the Giants or the Gymnasium) was built using the colossal Giant and Triton statues from the debris of the Odeion of Agrippa on its north side. 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. 3. Jan. 1891. A general view taken in the Stoa of the Giants.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1841_0011 ark:/21198/zz002hfdxw
Subject
Bicycle touring--Greece Children--Greece--Athens Agora (Athens, Greece) Sachtleben, William Lewis
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