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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of William Sachtleben [L?], on a Humber bicycle, and Basilios Kapsambelis, on a bicycle, in costume for Carnival in Piraeus. They are in the Municipal Theater Square with the Greek Orthodox church of Saint Constantine and Helen in the background. The church is located at Karaiskou 109. 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 / 56 Text from negative sleeve: No. 53. March 15, 1891. Sachtleben and Kapsambelis in Piraeus in carnival costume.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1841_0190 ark:/21198/zz002hfn2b
Subject
Carnival--Greece--Piraeus Bicycle touring--Greece Municipal Theater Square (Piraeus, Greece) Sachtleben, William Lewis Church of St. Constantine and Helen (Piraeus, Greece) Kapsambelis, Basilios Georgiou, 1866-1929
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