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Thomas Allen riding a bicycle at the Hippodrome of Constantinople (Sultanahmet Meydanı), and in front of the Sultanahmet Camii, Istanbul, 1891

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Title: Thomas Allen riding a bicycle at the Hippodrome of Constantinople (Sultanahmet Meydanı), and in front of the Sultanahmet Camii, 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 Thomas Allen riding a Humber bicycle at the Hippodrome of Constantinople (Sultanahmet Meydanı) in Istanbul as 3 men watch and one man walks past, with the Walled Obelisk (Constantine Obelisk) in the middle ground and the Sultanahmet Camii (Mosque of Sultan Ahmet I) in the background.
Text from negative sleeve: No. 16. March 21, 1891. The mosque of Sultan Ahmet with Hippodrome and column in the foreground.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1841_0024
ark:/21198/zz002hffbk
Subject: Obelisks--Turkey--Istanbul
Bicycle touring--Asia
Stadiums--Turkey--Istanbul
Mosques--Turkey--Istanbul
Hippodrome of Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
Walled Obelisk (Istanbul, Turkey)
Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Sultanahmet Camii (Istanbul, Turkey)
Source: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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