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[A white horse named Aver] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Vintage Print

[A white horse named Aver] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[A white horse named Aver] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893]. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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Step back in time with [A white horse named Aver] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[A white horse named Aver] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

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A single white horse named Aver, identified in the album caption as a Trakehner, stands at the center of this albumen print. The Abdullah Frères studio, a well-known photography firm in Constantinople, made it between 1880 and 1893, during the reign of Sultan Abdul-Hamid II. It belongs to an album of horses at the Imperial Stud Farm on the outskirts of Istanbul. The Trakehner breed was developed in East Prussia, so the picture also reflects the sultan's interest in European horse breeding alongside the older Arabian lines.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesA Trakehner horse. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 4. No. 76. In album: Horses at the Imperial Stud Farm, Istanbul environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsHorses--Turkey--İstanbul İli--1880-1900. Horseback riding--Turkey--İstanbul İli--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171231

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