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Street view with Gök Medrese on the left and Kale Camii in the distance, Sivas, Turkey, 1891

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Title: Street view with Gök Medrese on the left and Kale Camii in the distance, Sivas, Turkey, 1891
Contributor: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Date Created and/or Issued: May 2, 1891
1891-05-02
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 down Gökmedrese Cd., a stone-paved street in Sivas lined with low walls, facing N-NW with the Gök Medrese (also known as Gökmedrese and Sahibiye Medresesi) on the left and Kale Camii in the distance. One person a bit down the street faces the photographer and a group of people are gathered in the street in the distance.
Handwritten on negative: 1028 / 4
Text from negative sleeve: No. 65. May 2, 1891. An old Seljuk gate in Sivas, Pervané Meddresseh. (Seljuk king 604 of Hegira).
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1841_0077
ark:/21198/zz002hfh5z
Subject: Streets--Turkey--Sivas
Madrasahs--Turkey--Sivas
Mosques--Turkey--Sivas
Bicycle touring--Asia
Architecture, Seljuk--Turkey--Sivas
Gök Medrese (Sivas, Turkey)
Kale Camii (Sivas, Turkey)
Source: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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