[The students of the Infantry General Staff officers class of the Imperial Military Academy] / fotograf Föbus. – Vintage Wall Art
![[The students of the Infantry General Staff officers class of the Imperial Military Academy] / fotograf Föbus., [between 1890 and 1893] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6f/6f67b10f7be5-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 students of the Infantry General Staff officers class of the Imperial Military Academy] / fotograf Föbus. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[The students of the Infantry General Staff officers class of the Imperial Military Academy] / fotograf Föbus.
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The record names a specific group, the students of the Infantry General Staff officers class at the Imperial Military Academy in Istanbul, and marks it as No. 4 in an album of military schools. The photograph was made between 1890 and 1893 by the studio Föbus and captioned in both Ottoman Turkish and French, which reflects the bilingual presentation of the album. It is part of the Abdul-Hamid II Collection, assembled around the reign of a sultan who invested heavily in modernizing the army. Staff training prepared officers for planning and command, a path that mattered greatly to an empire under military and political pressure in the late nineteenth century. Notice the uniforms and the orderly arrangement of the men, which follow the conventions of formal group portraiture of the period.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1893] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1890-1900.Portrait photographs 1890-1900.Albumen prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 4. In album: The Imperial Military Academy and other military schools, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Military education--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. Students--Turkey--Istanbul--1890-1900. Uniforms--Turkey--Istanbul--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,203 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-153211 |
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