[The barracks of the rolling mill] – Antique Print
![[The barracks of the rolling mill], [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3f/3f30e0775884-L.webp)
(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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[The barracks of the rolling mill] 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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Workers who shaped sheet metal for the Ottoman navy lived in these barracks beside the rolling mill at the Imperial Naval Arsenal in Istanbul, a shipyard complex on the Golden Horn. The caption, written in Ottoman Turkish and French, comes from an album of naval personnel, facilities, and factories assembled in the 1880s and early 1890s, when Sultan Abdul Hamid II was modernizing the empire's military industries. The album's waterfront setting and orderly buildings reflect the state's effort to present its arsenal as a working center of industrial production.
| Created / published | [between 1880 and 1893] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1880-1900. |
| Notes | Barracks of sheet metal workers located at the Imperial Naval Arsenal. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 6. No. 33. In album: Naval personnel, the Imperial Naval Arsenal, military facilities, and factories, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Barracks--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. Waterfronts--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,327 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-154610 |
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