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[The deck cabins of the Imperial Yacht, Sultaniye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Vintage Print

[The deck cabins of the Imperial Yacht, Sultaniye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[The deck cabins of the Imperial Yacht, Sultaniye] / Constantinople, 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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This rare historic photograph captures [The deck cabins of the Imperial Yacht, Sultaniye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The subject here is the deck cabins of the Imperial Yacht *Sultaniye*, shown on the Bosphorus at Constantinople, now Istanbul. The photograph is one of the Abdullah Frères studio's views, a firm of court photographers whose work was widely sold in the late 19th century. Its caption appears in both Ottoman Turkish and French, and it sits within an album of naval images that belonged to Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who ruled from 1876 to 1909. Such views record the furnishings and layout of a royal vessel at a time when the Ottoman navy was modernizing, and the cabins' interiors offer a rare look at how the imperial household lived at sea.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesTitle translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 17. No. 674. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsAbdülhamid--II,--Sultan of the Turks,--1842-1918,--Associated objects. Sailors--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. Decks (Ships)--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. Yachts--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,078 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171829

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