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Thomas Allen and William Sachtleben with their bicycles in the portico of the Erechtheum, Athens, 1891

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Title: Thomas Allen and William Sachtleben with their bicycles in the portico of the Erechtheum, Athens, 1891
Contributor: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Date Created and/or Issued: 1891-03-13
March 13, 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.
View of Thomas Allen (L) and William Sachtleben with their Humber bicycles in the portico of the Erechtheum (Erechtheion). A couple sit in a small doorway to the right of the main portal.
Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's stay in Athens before embarking on a bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Text from negative sleeve: No. 31. March 13, 1891. The entrance to the Temple of Erectheus. On the floor of the portico.
Handwritten on negative: 21 / 32
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1841_0168
ark:/21198/zz002hfm9g
Subject: Greek temples--Greece--Athens
Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
Bicycle touring--Greece
Erechtheum (Athens, Greece)
Source: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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