[Riva lifesaving station seen from the shore] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Vintage Print
![[Riva lifesaving station seen from the shore] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cb/cbac03fe2d03-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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A window into the past: [Riva lifesaving station seen from the shore] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Riva lifesaving station seen from the shore] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.
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The view shows the lifesaving station at Riva, a coastal settlement on the Black Sea east of Istanbul, photographed from the shore. Ottoman authorities built stations like this along the empire's coasts in the late 1800s to rescue crews from shipwrecks in a sea known for sudden storms. The print is an albumen photograph from the Istanbul studio Abdullah Frères, which was among the best-known commercial photographers in the city during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Its Ottoman and English captions and its place in the sultan's album make it a useful record of how the state presented its maritime work to outside eyes.
| Created / published | [between 1880 and 1893] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Albumen prints 1880-1900. |
| Notes | Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 30. No. 638. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Lifesaving stations--Turkey--Black Sea Coast--1880-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,139 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-154339 |
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