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Hagia Sophia mosque with William Sachtleben's bicycle parked in the foreground, Istanbul, 1891

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Title: Hagia Sophia mosque with William Sachtleben's bicycle parked in the foreground, Istanbul, 1891
Contributor: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Date Created and/or Issued: 1891-03-21
March 21, 1891
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
View of the Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, with locals gazing at a Humber bicycle parked in the foreground.
Text from negative sleeve: No. 14. March 21, 1891. The Mosque of St. Sophia in Stanbul. Constantinople.
Handwritten on negative: 105 / 17
Handwritten on negative: 105 / 19
Handwritten on negative: 105 / 18
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1841_0022
ark:/21198/zz002hff8j
Subject: Bicycle touring--Asia
Mosques--Turkey--Istanbul
Ayasofya Müzesi
Source: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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