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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Thomas Allen (L) and William Sachtleben conversing with a Greek guard on the Acropolis next to the Parthenon as another guard watches. Their Humber bicycles are parked next to them. The guards wear traditional dress including white pleated foustanella and white socks. A column drum is in the foreground. Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's stay in Athens before embarking on a bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr. Handwritten on negative: 21 / 19 Text from negative sleeve: No. 19. March 13, 1891. Laying down the law to the guard on the Acropolis near the ruins of the Parthenon.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1841_0156 ark:/21198/zz002hfkws
Subject
Greek temples--Greece--Athens Guards--Greece--Athens Acropolis (Athens, Greece) Bicycle touring--Greece Sachtleben, William Lewis Parthenon (Athens, Greece) Allen, Thomas Gaskell
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