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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. View of William Sachtleben standing in front of a doorway of the Tower of the Winds with his bicycle. The doorway is secure by a wooden slat gate and is flanked by 2 broken, fluted columns. Broken column drums line the base of the tower. The Tower of the Winds is an octagonal clocktower in the agora in Athens which features sundials, a water clock and a wind vane. 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. 21. Feb. 26, 1891: The northwest entrance to the tower of the winds, built 100 B.C.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1841_0207 ark:/21198/zz002hfnmm
Subject
Tower of the Winds (Athens, Greece) Bicycle touring--Greece Clock towers--Greece--Athens Agora (Athens, Greece) Sachtleben, William Lewis
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