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From Stamboul (N.) over bridge across Golden Horn to Galata, Constantinople – Historic Print

From Stamboul (N.) over bridge across Golden Horn to Galata, Constantinople, c1913. — historic photograph
From Stamboul (N.) over bridge across Golden Horn to Galata, Constantinople, c1913.. 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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Few things in early twentieth-century photography captured a skyline as busily as this view across the Golden Horn, the narrow inlet that divides old Stamboul from the Galata district of Constantinople. The stereograph, made around 1913 and issued by the firm Underwood & Underwood, shows the bridge crossing the water and the crowded waterfront beyond it. Stereo cards like this were sold in large numbers to American and European viewers who looked at them through hand viewers, so the image was meant to feel like standing on the bridge itself. The record's details come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified, but the scene reflects a city then at the crossroads of Ottoman and European life.

Created / publishedc1913.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,349 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-107931

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