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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. View of William Sachtleben next to an Acropolis guard who is elevated on a truncated column with two Humber bicycles parked in front of them. Another guard is seated on a truncated column on the left, next to Thomas Allen and a third guard seated on a column resting on its side. Two of the guards are dressed in white pleated foustanella garments. 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 / 26 Text from negative sleeve: No. 26. March 13, 1891. The modern demosthenes harangueing [sic] among the ruins of the Acropolis.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1841_0163 ark:/21198/zz002hfm4w
Subject
Guards--Greece--Athens Acropolis (Athens, Greece) Bicycle touring--Greece Sachtleben, William Lewis Allen, Thomas Gaskell
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