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

[The front deck of the Imperial Yacht, Sultaniye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[The front deck 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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A window into the past: [The front deck of the Imperial Yacht, Sultaniye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Taken on the front deck of the Imperial Yacht Sultaniye, this albumen print records the sailors and working spaces of an Ottoman royal vessel rather than its ornamented interior. It was made in Constantinople by Abdullah Frères, the studio of the Abdullah brothers, Armenian-born photographers who held court patronage and sold their views widely in Europe. The print comes from an album assembled for Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who reigned from 1876 to 1909 and took a keen interest in photography. The album's other pages cover naval personnel and lifesaving stations along the Black 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. 15. No. 659. 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 × 1,097 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171827

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