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[The stern cabin of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Antique Wall Art

[The stern cabin of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[The stern cabin of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / 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 stern cabin of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[The stern cabin of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

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Few photographs of the late Ottoman navy show the inside of a warship, which makes this view of the stern cabin of the *Hamidiye* unusual. The ship was an armored frigate named for Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and its officers' quarters at the stern were where rank and display mattered most. The print was made by Abdullah Frères, the Istanbul studio of the Abdullah brothers, who were among the city's best-known commercial photographers in the 1880s and early 1890s. It belongs to an album of imperial naval subjects assembled for the sultan's collection, which was meant to present a modernizing Ottoman fleet to visitors and to the court.

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. 7. No. 603. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsHamidiye (Ship)--1880-1900. Crew quarters--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. Armored vessels--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. Navies--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,204 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-154083

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