Turquie : [views of Constantinople] ca. 1875-ca. 1890.

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Turquie : [views of Constantinople] ca. 1875-ca. 1890.

Panoramic views taken from Galata looking across the Golden Horn, together with more detailed views of Constantinople. Includes photos of Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya Müzesi: interior/exterior); Galata Bridge; Mosque of Ahmet I (exterior); the sarcophagus of Alexander; Palace Hotel; street scenes with bazaars and cafés; sea traffic and waterfront activity; other views of the commercial quarter of Galata, Beyoglu (formerly Pera); the historic quarter of Stambul, the ancient core of the city abutting on the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara. The two cabinet card portraits are of the same unknown man.

68 albumen photoprints ; 21 x 27 cm., on sheets 38 x 49 cm.2 photoprints on cabinet cards ; 17 x 11 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8225024

Getty Research Institute

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Ayasofya Muzesi

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Sebah & Joaillier.

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The photographic firm of Sébah & Joaillier operated in Constantinople from ca. 1860 to 1899 during the most intense phase of Ottoman economic and sociopolitical transformations that had begun with the Tamizat reforms of 1839. The reforms were aimed at regularization and modernization along Western lines. From the description of Turquie : [views of Constantinople] ca. 1875-ca. 1890. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79165510 ...