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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 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. Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr. Text from negative sleeve: No. 17. March 21, 1891. The serpent column, or Column of Pharoah, King of Egypt. Old Roman remains in Stanbul. Handwritten on negative: 105 / 20
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1841_0025 ark:/21198/zz002hffc3
Subject
Columns--Turkey--Istanbul Mosques--Greece--Athens Obelisks--Turkey--Istanbul Bicycle touring--Asia Allen, Thomas Gaskell Hippodrome of Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) Sultanahmet Camii (Istanbul, Turkey) Obelisk of Thutmose III (Istanbul, Turkey)
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