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[High school, Monastir] / Sebah & Joaillier, Phot., Constantinople. – Antique Wall Art

[High school, Monastir] / Sebah & Joaillier, Phot., Constantinople., [between 1888 and 1893] — historic photograph
[High school, Monastir] / Sebah & Joaillier, Phot., Constantinople., [between 1888 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: [High school, Monastir] / Sebah & Joaillier, Phot., Constantinople., 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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[High school, Monastir] / Sebah & Joaillier, Phot., Constantinople.

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Monastir, the provincial city known today as Bitola in North Macedonia, was one of the Ottoman Empire's significant regional centers, and this high school was part of its civic life in the late 1880s. The print comes from a numbered album of school portraits later held in the Abdul-Hamid II Collection, assembled during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, whose government expanded state education. The Istanbul studio of Sebah & Joaillier made the photograph between about 1888 and 1893. Its captions in Ottoman Turkish and French suggest the album was meant to present the empire's modern schools to both domestic and European audiences.

Created / published[between 1888 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesTitle translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 25. In album: High schools and student portraits, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsEducation--Macedonia--Bitola--1880-1900. Schools--Macedonia--Bitola--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,219 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-153636

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