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[View of the great Selimiye Barracks, from the sea] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople. – Historic Photo Reproduction

[View of the great Selimiye Barracks, from the sea] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[View of the great Selimiye Barracks, from the sea] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople., [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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[View of the great Selimiye Barracks, from the sea] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

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Seen from the water, the Selimiye Barracks sits on the Üsküdar shore of the Bosphorus, across from the old city. The Ottoman army has used the complex since the late eighteenth century, and during the Crimean War it housed the British military hospital where Florence Nightingale worked. The photograph was taken by Abdullah Frères, a Constantinople studio whose views were widely sold, and it appears in an album of Istanbul sites that also includes firefighting equipment, hospitals, and factories. That mix offers a picture of the city's public institutions in the years before 1893.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesLocated in Üsküdar. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 36. No. 446. In album: Fire Brigade personnel and equipment, barracks, hospitals, and factories, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBarracks--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,200 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-154520

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