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[Students, high school, Damascus] / Sebah & Joaillier, Phot., Constantinople. – Vintage Print

[Students, high school, Damascus] / Sebah & Joaillier, Phot., Constantinople., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[Students, high school, Damascus] / Sebah & Joaillier, Phot., Constantinople., [between 1880 and 1893]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Students, high school, Damascus] / Sebah & Joaillier, Phot., Constantinople. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Students, high school, Damascus] / Sebah & Joaillier, Phot., Constantinople.

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Uniformed students from a high school in Damascus pose for this portrait, one of several student studies gathered in an album of Ottoman schools. The Constantinople studio of Sebah & Joaillier made many views of the empire, and this albumen print from between about 1880 and 1893 belongs to the Abdul-Hamid II Collection, assembled during a reign from 1876 to 1909 when state schooling expanded across the provinces. The picture shows how the government used photography to present its new institutions. Note the uniforms, which the subject headings single out as a notable feature of the period.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesTitle translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 6. In album: High schools and student portraits, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsEducation--Syria--Damascus--1880-1900. Students--Syria--Damascus--1880-1900. Uniforms--Syria--Damascus--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,232 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-153617

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