In 1853 photographer Ernest de Caranza and artist Emile Charles Labbé (probably both sitting next to the ship in the harbour of Pantocratoros)) visited Mount Athos and made a series of photographs to make an album compromising 87 salt prints flush-mounted to card. 
Travel notes and letters suggest that the trip was allowed by Sutlan Abdulmecit I and that the album was intended to Empereur Napoléon III. 
Esfigmenou
The existence of these photgraphs was known but they were kept by a family. Now they are public and it is quite a discovery. The collection was sold in different lots by Sotheby’s november 2016. 
Historically it is a very interesting set of photograph. Here Vatopedi wth the ruins of the academy on the hill.
The same ship as in the first photo in the arsanas of Pantocratoros
The arsanas of Lavra (Mandraki) on photo and negative.
There is a whole serie of photographs of Konaki in Karyes. 
Sografou
Lavra
Probably Koutloumousiou
Iviron
Xiropotamou
Arsanas Dionysiou
Dionysiou
The entrance of Vatopedi
Herman Voogd
