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[View of Bursa from the Hotel Bellvue] / Abdullah Frères. – Vintage Photo Print

[View of Bursa from the Hotel Bellvue] / Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[View of Bursa from the Hotel Bellvue] / Abdullah Frères., [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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A window into the past: [View of Bursa from the Hotel Bellvue] / Abdullah Frères., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[View of Bursa from the Hotel Bellvue] / Abdullah Frères.

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This view looks down over the rooftops of Bursa, taken from the Hotel Bellvue, so the city's dense tiled roofs fill most of the frame rather than individual monuments. It was made by Abdullah Frères, the Istanbul studio of the Abdullah brothers, whose work for the Ottoman court is well documented. The print comes from an album of mosques, mausoleums, and town scenes in Bursa, Eskişehir, and İznik, which was part of the collection assembled under Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Bursa, the early Ottoman capital, is a useful place to notice how a city's roofline records its streets and neighborhoods.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAerial views 1880-1900.Albumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesTitle translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 34. No. 75. In album: Mausoleums, mosques and other buildings and views in Bursa, Eskisehir, and İznik, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsRoofs--Turkey--Bursa--1880-1900. Cities & towns--Turkey--Bursa--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,265 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172039

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