[Students, private school Mekteb-i Hamidi-yi] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M.I. le Sultan. – Vintage Photo Print
![[Students, private school Mekteb-i Hamidi-yi] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M.I. le Sultan., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b4/b4bbd430efda-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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This rare historic photograph captures [Students, private school Mekteb-i Hamidi-yi] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M.I. le Sultan. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Students, private school Mekteb-i Hamidi-yi] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M.I. le Sultan.
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Schoolgirls at the private Mekteb-i Hamidi-yi in Istanbul sit for this formal group portrait, a setting that shows how the school presented itself in the early 1880s. The print was made by Abdullah Frères, a studio that held the title of photographers to the Sultan, and its caption appears in both Ottoman Turkish and French. It comes from an album in the Abdul-Hamid II Collection, assembled during a period when girls' education was part of wider reform debates in the Ottoman Empire. Portraits like this one document school dress, posture and the public staging of respectable young womanhood.
| Created / published | [between 1880 and 1893] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1880-1900.Group portraits 1880-1900.Albumen prints 1880-1900. |
| Notes | Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. In album: Portraits of schoolgirls, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Women--Education--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. Education--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. School children--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. Girls--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,079 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172270 |
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