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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph was most probably taken in 1895, when William Sachtleben was in Turkey to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum. Sachtleben's 1891 photographs of his bicycle tour across Asia have a circular format. Photograph of a man with 2 boys next to a stone wall and with a house in the background. The man wears a fez hat, striped shirt and sash and loose trousers tucked into his socks. One boy wears a hat with a light band and a long coat and the other boy wears a striped shirt and sash and long. loose trousers. Two men are seated in front of the house in the background (right).
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