Stereoscope Slide. Writing on left states "Underwood & Underwood, Publishers. New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas"; Writing on right states "Works and Studios ~ Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J."; Writing on bottom states "(4)-2372- The Acropolis of Athens, Lykabettos and Royal Palace, from Philopappos monument. Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood. U-85030" Sepia toned slide of adult woman in white long sleeved dress standing next to a young boy on a hill with the Acropolis in the distant background. Writing on the back: That temple-crowned height over opposite where you stand is the most famous hill in Europe. Modern Athens is, for the most part, at the farther (north) side of the Acropolis. That large square building at the right, below and beyond the Acroplis, is the Royal Palace. Beyond the city you can see the sharp cone of Lycabettos (it is a long-extinct volcano) with the little chapel of St. George a-top. The Acropolis was in oldest times a citadel, protectig the town whose houses clustered below it. Twenty-four centuries ago Pisistratus made it splendid with temples, but these were destroyed by the Persians under Xerxes, 480 B.C. It was after Themistocles had defeated the Persians at Salamis (ten miles away behind you) and when the country was once more safe and serence, that Pericles built of Pentelic marble the Parthenon up there on the height, a thank-offering to Athene. It was finished about 438 B.C. Over ar the north (left) of the Parthenon you can see part of the Erechtheion and other remains of old splendor. Part of the once magnificent Propylaea, the state approach to the shrings, you can see at the extreme west (left) end of the height. In the latter days of Roman dominion here (6th cent. A.D.) Justinian made the Acropolis once more a military citadel. In the fourteenth century the Florentines captured it; then a Venetian duke held it till 1458, when it was surrendered to the Turks. In 1687, during a war between the Turks and the Venetians, an explosion ruined that most beautiful building in the whole world, the Parthenon., and reduced it to what you see now, a fragment of time-yellowed marbles a pathetically nomble remnant of the best art-creation of the old Greek civilization. In 1833, after the victorious close of the Greek struggle for independence, the Turks finally abandoned the ground; it belongs now to Greece and to the world. From Notes of Travel, No. 6, copyrighted, 1901, by Underwood & Underwood." "The Acropolis, the Glory of Ancient Athens." Translated into 6 languages.

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Stereoscope slide. Writing on left states "Underwood & Underwood, Publishers. New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas"; Writing on left states "Works and Studios ~ Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J."; Writing on bottom states "(6)-9282- Looking E. from Propylaea across ruin-strewn Acropolis to west end of Parthenon, Athens. Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood. U-83839" Men and women in period dress walk among the ruins.

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