People of the Ottoman Empire. [1870-1880]

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People of the Ottoman Empire. [1870-1880]

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The album contains 13 cabinet cards and 104 cartes-de-visite. It begins with three cabinet card portraits: Sultan Abdul-Aziz I, a veiled Turkish woman, and a priest at prayer. These are followed by 16 pages of cartes-de-visite beginning with portraits of Turkish women as well as Greeks, Armenians, Circasians, and women of other ethnicities. Next are portraits of men, beginning with professors and priests, and moving on to dervishes. The section concludes with several portraits of women of various ethnicities. Next are eight cabinet cards depicting a nursing mother, women with hookas, Druzes and Zeybek warriors. They are followed by ten pages of cartes-de-visite of soldiers, warriors, and male street vendors of various ethnicities including Serbs, Greeks, Albanians, Zeybeks, and Circasians. The album concludes with two cabinet cards: a portrait of two Syrian women and a Turkish family group of a little boy seated between his mother and nanny.

1 album (117 photographic prints) : albumen ; 27.5 x 21.5 cm; photographs 14 x 10.5 cm. and 10 x 6.5 cm.

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