[View of the new bridge and Galata area from İstanbul] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople. – Historic Photograph Print
![[View of the new bridge and Galata area from İstanbul] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c1/c1ac9cf51d80-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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[View of the new bridge and Galata area from İstanbul] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[View of the new bridge and Galata area from İstanbul] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.
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This view looks across the Golden Horn toward the Galata Bridge, the crossing that linked the old city of Istanbul with the Galata district on the opposite shore. The print was made by Abdullah Frères, the Ottoman studio of the Abdullah brothers, who were known for photographing the city and its imperial institutions. Its caption appears in both Ottoman Turkish and French, and it is one of several views in an album of naval and civic sites that belonged to Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Because the album pages were arranged by subject, the picture also shows how the Ottoman government presented its waterfront and infrastructure to visitors and officials in the 1880s.
| Created / published | [between 1880 and 1893] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Albumen prints 1880-1900. |
| Notes | View of the Galata Bridge. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 40. No. 551. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy, Imperial Naval Arsenal, Navy Department, and bridges, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Bridges--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. Galata (Istanbul, Turkey)--1880-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,180 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111160 |
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