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Gia Aivazian on the Sachtleben Archive
The Adventurer Who Rode a Bicycle Across Asia
UCLA Library Special Collections
Wednesday, March11, 2015,12 PM
The exhibition Round Trip focuses on William Sachtleben’s role in the
history of late nineteenth-century bicycling. The photographic
negatives, prints, and diaries kept by Sachtleben documented his
journey, in 1891, through Asia Minor with Thomas G. Allen, Jr. and
form part of his archive in the UCLA Library Special Collections. The
archive also includes photographs, letters and notes associated with a
second journey Sachtleben undertook in 1895 to Erzerum, Turkey, in
search of a lost American cyclist by the name of Frank Lenz. He stayed
almost a year in Erzerum and came to know and learn about Armenians,
Turks and Kurds and record his impressions. More importantly, he was
eyewitness to the October 30th massacre of the Armenians in the town
of Erzerum.
Gia Aivazian, former Librarian for Armenian and Greek at UCLA’s Young
Research Library, was instrumental in the archive’s acquisition and
has spent many years studying it. In this talk, Aivazian shares her
reflections on the adventurer who rode a bicycle across Asia and also
the man, who contributed to our understanding of the people living on
historic Armenian lands-now part of Turkey, in a specific slice of
time.
Parking
Convenient parking is available in LOT 4, accessible from Sunset Blvd
at Westwood. Parking is $12; automated pay stations accept $1 or $5
bills and credit/debit cards.
Elizabeth Grigorian ● Armenian Outreach Coordinator ● City of
Glendale ● Library, Arts & Culture ● 222 East Harvard Street ●
Glendale, CA 91205 ● (818) 548- 3288 ● [email protected]
The Adventurer Who Rode a Bicycle Across Asia
UCLA Library Special Collections
Wednesday, March11, 2015,12 PM
The exhibition Round Trip focuses on William Sachtleben’s role in the
history of late nineteenth-century bicycling. The photographic
negatives, prints, and diaries kept by Sachtleben documented his
journey, in 1891, through Asia Minor with Thomas G. Allen, Jr. and
form part of his archive in the UCLA Library Special Collections. The
archive also includes photographs, letters and notes associated with a
second journey Sachtleben undertook in 1895 to Erzerum, Turkey, in
search of a lost American cyclist by the name of Frank Lenz. He stayed
almost a year in Erzerum and came to know and learn about Armenians,
Turks and Kurds and record his impressions. More importantly, he was
eyewitness to the October 30th massacre of the Armenians in the town
of Erzerum.
Gia Aivazian, former Librarian for Armenian and Greek at UCLA’s Young
Research Library, was instrumental in the archive’s acquisition and
has spent many years studying it. In this talk, Aivazian shares her
reflections on the adventurer who rode a bicycle across Asia and also
the man, who contributed to our understanding of the people living on
historic Armenian lands-now part of Turkey, in a specific slice of
time.
Parking
Convenient parking is available in LOT 4, accessible from Sunset Blvd
at Westwood. Parking is $12; automated pay stations accept $1 or $5
bills and credit/debit cards.
Elizabeth Grigorian ● Armenian Outreach Coordinator ● City of
Glendale ● Library, Arts & Culture ● 222 East Harvard Street ●
Glendale, CA 91205 ● (818) 548- 3288 ● [email protected]