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Thomas Allen poses on his bicycle on a block of marble at the Propylaea, Athens, 1891

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Title: Thomas Allen poses on his bicycle on a block of marble at the Propylaea, 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 at the Propylaea on his Humber bicycle on top of a large block of marble. An Acropolis guard dressed in a white pleated foustanella and seated on another block of marble observes him. Another man is visible behind the guard. View from south.
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 / 43
Text from negative sleeve: No. 41. March 13, 1891. The huge [?] fallen beams of marble. 25 ft. long, 36 inches wide and 26 inches thick.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1841_0177
ark:/21198/zz002hfmm4
Subject: Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
Bicycle touring--Greece
Guards--Greece--Athens
Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Propylaea (Acropolis, Athens, Greece)
Source: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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