Constantinople, Turkey – Vintage Photo Print
(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: Constantinople, Turkey, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Photo-panoramic view of Constantinople
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Constantinople, Turkey
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Constantinople in 1876 was the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and its waterfront on the Golden Horn and the Bosporus handled much of the empire's trade between Europe and Asia. The year was one of political upheaval: Sultan Abdulaziz was deposed in May, his successor Murad V was removed in August, and Abdul Hamid II took the throne. By December a constitution had been proclaimed, and a conference of European powers met in the city over the empire's troubles in the Balkans, where a revolt in Bulgaria had been brutally put down earlier that year. Residents of Stamboul, Galata and Pera, a mix of Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Jews and Levantines, knew the city as a crossroads of faiths and languages, with mosques and minarets rising above the water.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Creator | oscanyan, c. (christopher) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Turkey |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,847 px · prints to 18 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Photo-panoramic view of Constantinople |
| Reference | TURKEY 1876 Constantinople |
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