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Album containing approximately 70 artful photographs of the Turkish people, including remarkably
detailed exotic portraits of veiled and unveiled women in a beautifully appointed studio setting, as
well as occupational and ethnographic studies of men (all of them taken on the street), including
tradesmen, military figures, and more.With 40 albumen prints measuring 6x8 inches (15.2x20.3 cm.),
and the reverse, 14 cartes-de-visite size photographs, 13 stereos, 2 gravures (printed in color), and 4
silver prints measuring 9x13 inches (22.9x33 cm.). Folio, gilt-pictorial embossed morocco with the
Royal cipher, front cover defective, backstrip perished. 1870s-1910
[4,000/6,000]
A typewritten undated note laid in to the album reads: “While on duty with the Navy from 1919-21 in
Constantinople an assistant postmaster gave me this album as we were jointly working photographing Mosques
and other places of interest in that area.The original photographer is of course unknown. Originally, the album
was probably in the archives of the Sulvans as the gold insignia on the cover is the official seal of the Sultan.”
The document is signed A. G. Diack, and includes additional typewritten descriptions of many of the photographs
.