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William Sachtleben or Thomas Allen unloading bicycles from a cart after crossing the Zeravshan River on the road from Samarqand to Chinaz, Uzbekistan, 1891

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Title: William Sachtleben or Thomas Allen unloading bicycles from a cart after crossing the Zeravshan River on the road from Samarqand to Chinaz, Uzbekistan, 1891
Contributor: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Date Created and/or Issued: November 16, 1891
1891-11-16
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.
Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
This photograph appears with the caption "Our Ferry Over the Zerafshan" in the book by Thomas Allen and William Sachtleben, Across Asia on a Bicycle (1897), p. 118.
Text from negative sleeve: No. 28. Nov. 16, 1891. Scene on the road to Tashkent. Unloading our wheels from the native (Sart) cart on which we crossed the swollen Zarafshan in central Asia.
Handwritten on negative: 5201 / 25
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1841_0316
ark:/21198/zz002hfscx
Subject: Zeravshan River (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
Bicycle touring--Asia
Carts & wagons--Russian--Uzbekistan--Samarqand
Sachtleben, William Lewis
Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Source: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

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