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 the bottom states "(1)-9307- Athens, old and new, S.W. from Lykabettos past royal palace (left) and Acropolis to the sea. Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood. U-88483" Back has writing: 9278. "That great marble building at our left is the palace of the king; rising in the middle distance is the ancient Acropolis. To the right of the Acropolis, on the shore, we see the modern town of Piraeus. At the extreme left, dimly seen over the waters of the Saronic Gulf, is the island of Aegina, twenty miles away. Directly before us the mountains of the Peloponnesus can be indistinctly seen. About one hundred miles distant directly before us lies Sparta. We look upon the place which was for centuries the intellectual centre not only of Greece, but of the world. Upon the Acropolis, rising two hundred feet above its immediate surroundings, we see the Parthenon to the left and the Erechtheion and part of the Proylaea to the right. Directly behind the Acropolis, to the left of the Parthenon, is the Museion Hill with the ruined monument of Philopappos. To the extreme right, just below the Acropolis we see a dark rock, the Areopagus or Mars Hill. When the Greeks in 1834 achieved their independence from Turkey, Athens was an insignificant village consisting of a few hundred inhabitants, living on the north side of the Acropolis. It was purely sentimental considerations that settled the question of the capital here; the selection of Athens instead of Nauplia has, however, been abundantly justified. The city now has a population of 150,000 and is constantly growing. To the right of the palace, where some tall, dark cypresses appear, is Constitution Square around which the better parts of the city are grouped. From the lower side of that square Hermes street runs from the palace westward through the city toward Piraeus. From Greece through the Sterescope, by Rufus B. Richardson, Ph.D., copyright 1907 by Underwood and Underwood." "Athens old and new, southwest from Lykabettos." is translated in four languages.

Photograph (2009.3.2.10)

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 "(10)-9286-Horsemen in procession, part of the frieze by Phidias sill on W. wall of Parthenon, Athens. Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood. U-70007"

Photograph (2009.3.2.17)

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 "(17)-2371- The Parthenon, N. W., from teh Temple of the Olympian Zeus, Athens, Greece.Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood. U-70007" Writing on back: "the Parthenon, N.W. from the Temple of the Olympian Zeus, Athens, Greece." Translated in 6 languages.

Photograph (2009.3.2.4)

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.

Photograph (2009.3.2.5)

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 "(5)-9281-Looking N.E. up through the Propylaea-entrance to Acropolis-Nike temple at right, Athens. Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood, U-84827" Greek men and women in the foreground. a horse and carriage waits in front of the Propylaea.

Photograph (2009.3.2.6)

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.

Photograph (2009.3.2.7)

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 "(7)-9283- "Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem upon her zone" W.S.W. to east end, Athens. Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood. U-84846" Man in foregound wearing traditional wear, and in background among the ruins.

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