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[Ground floor plan, imperial military middle school, Van] – Antique Print

[Ground floor plan, imperial military middle school, Van], [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[Ground floor plan, imperial military middle school, Van], [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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Step back in time with [Ground floor plan, imperial military middle school, Van], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Ground floor plan, imperial military middle school, Van]

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A ground floor plan of an imperial military middle school in Van, the lakeside city in eastern Anatolia, is the subject here, with its Ottoman Turkish and French captions showing that it was meant for official record-keeping. The sheet comes from an album of imperial schools that Abdul Hamid II's government compiled in the 1880s and early 1890s, when the sultan's administration expanded state education and military training across the empire. Such plans were prized as evidence of the government's modernizing ambitions. The Library of Congress holds the album within its Abdul-Hamid II Collection, which also preserves the student portraits that accompanied the drawings.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreArchitectural drawings Reproductions 1880-1900.Albumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesTitle translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 15. In album: Imperial schools, architectural plans and student portraits, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsSchools--Turkey--Van--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,228 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-153680

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