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The Thriassian Plain and Eleusis on the bay, E.S.E. from Mandra toward Athens Greece,

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The Thriassian Plain and Eleusis on the bay, E.S.E. from Mandra toward Athens Greece

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Dimensions

8.9 x 17.8 cm (3 1/2 x 7 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Printed on recto of mount, left margin: Keystone View Company/ Copyright Underwood & Underwood/ Manufacturers Made in U.S.A. Publishers. Printed on recto on mount, right margin: Meadville, Pa. New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., London,England. Printed on recto on mount, lower right: (28)-9297- The Thriasian Plain and Eleusis on the bay. E.S.E. from Mandra toward Athens, Greece. Printed on recto, on mount, upper center: 28. Printed on verso, on mount: 9297. "The beautiful plain before us, covered with/ olive groves, is the Eleusinian territory, the home of/ grain which made men out of savages. Beyond we see/ the bay of Eleusis. On the shore of that bay was the/ sacred home of Greek religion in its noblest phase. The/ white houses of the present village of Eleusis are partly/ hidden by the cap of this bronzed and weather-worn/ sheperd. The Sacred Enclosure itself is just to the / right of the village, at the foot of the low, dark/ ridge. * * *
Beyond the bay are two mountains; just beyond the/ place where those mountains came together, lies Athens. The mountain farthest away, loomming up towards the clouds, is Hymettos, and not far beyond Hymettos is/ the Aegean Sea. The Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis ran through/ the gorge between those two mountains beyond the bay../ After emerging from the gorge, it skirted the shore to/ Eleusis. The great highway from Athens to Thebes and/ nothern Greece followed the same route as far as Eleusis. From that point it turned northwest and,/ with many winding reached (behind us) the top of the/ divide between Attica and Bocotia."
From Greece though the Stereoscope, by Rufus B Richardson. Ph. D.,
copy right by Underwood & Underwood.

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Credit

Gift of Mary Bergstein

Object Number

2012.83.9

About

The Thriassian Plain and Eleusis on the bay, E.S.E. from Mandra toward Athens Greece

Printed on recto of mount, left margin: Keystone View Company/ Copyright Underwood & Underwood/ Manufacturers Made in U.S.A. Publishers. Printed on recto on mount, right margin: Meadville, Pa. New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., London,England. Printed on recto on mount, lower right: (28)-9297- The Thriasian Plain and Eleusis on the bay. E.S.E. from Mandra toward Athens, Greece. Printed on recto, on mount, upper center: 28. Printed on verso, on mount: 9297. "The beautiful plain before us, covered with/ olive groves, is the Eleusinian territory, the home of/ grain which made men out of savages. Beyond we see/ the bay of Eleusis. On the shore of that bay was the/ sacred home of Greek religion in its noblest phase. The/ white houses of the present village of Eleusis are partly/ hidden by the cap of this bronzed and weather-worn/ sheperd. The Sacred Enclosure itself is just to the / right of the village, at the foot of the low, dark/ ridge. * * *
Beyond the bay are two mountains; just beyond the/ place where those mountains came together, lies Athens. The mountain farthest away, loomming up towards the clouds, is Hymettos, and not far beyond Hymettos is/ the Aegean Sea. The Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis ran through/ the gorge between those two mountains beyond the bay../ After emerging from the gorge, it skirted the shore to/ Eleusis. The great highway from Athens to Thebes and/ nothern Greece followed the same route as far as Eleusis. From that point it turned northwest and,/ with many winding reached (behind us) the top of the/ divide between Attica and Bocotia."
From Greece though the Stereoscope, by Rufus B Richardson. Ph. D.,
copy right by Underwood & Underwood.

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