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[The inclined plane at Sile] – Historic Print

[The inclined plane at Sile], [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[The inclined plane at Sile], [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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A sloped launching ramp at Sile, a town on the Anatolian coast of the Black Sea, is the subject here, with a lifeboat set up to be lowered or hauled between the shore and the water. The caption, in Ottoman Turkish and French, identifies it as part of a series on ships and lifesaving stations along that coast. The photograph belongs to the Abdul-Hamid II Collection, a group of images assembled for the sultan's albums during his reign, which ended in 1909. Such pictures document the Ottoman state's effort to modernize its navy and coastal rescue services in the late nineteenth century, when shipwrecks on the Black Sea were a serious concern.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesCaptioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. Title translated from album caption. No. 25. no. 82. In album: Ships, Black Sea lifesaving stations, naval personnel and facilities, Turkey, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBoat & ship industry--Turkey--Sile--1880-1900. Lifeboats--Turkey--Sile--1880-1900. Inclined planes--Turkey--Sile--1880-1900. Launchings--Turkey--Sile--1880-1900. Lifesaving--Turkey--Sile--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,320 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-153537

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