[The coal office in Mytilēnē] – Historic Print
![[The coal office in Mytilēnē], [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4c/4c3679776fa4-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 coal office in Mytilēnē] 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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[The coal office in Mytilēnē]
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The coal office at Mytilēnē, on the island of Lesbos, is a rare view of a working commercial site rather than a harbor or a ship. Its caption appears in both Ottoman Turkish and French, and the print belongs to an album of sites across Turkey and Greece that is part of the Abdul-Hamid II Collection at the Library of Congress. Coal fueled the steamships that called at Aegean ports, so a depot like this one supported the maritime traffic of the island's harbor. The print dates from between 1880 and 1893.
| Created / published | [between 1880 and 1893] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1880-1900. |
| Notes | Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 22. No. 105. In album: Black Sea lifesaving stations, naval facilities, ports, mines, and factories, Turkey and Greece, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Buildings--Greece--Mytilēnē (Lesbos Island)--1880-1900. Ore industry--Greece--Mytilēnē (Lesbos Island)--1880-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,290 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-154650 |
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