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[The First Battalion of the First Regiment of Zouaves of the Imperial Guard] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople. – Vintage Print

[The First Battalion of the First Regiment of Zouaves of the Imperial Guard] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[The First Battalion of the First Regiment of Zouaves of the Imperial Guard] / 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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[The First Battalion of the First Regiment of Zouaves of the Imperial Guard] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

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The soldiers in this print belong to the First Battalion of the First Regiment of Zouaves of the Imperial Guard, a unit of the Ottoman army in Constantinople, and the French caption on the album page names them directly. The Abdullah Frères studio, a well-known Istanbul photography firm that worked for the imperial court, made the albumen print sometime between 1880 and 1893, during the reign of Sultan Abdul-Hamid II. The zouave name comes from French North African infantry, and its adoption by the Ottoman army reflects the period's wider interest in European military dress and drill. The print is part of the sultan's photograph collection now held by the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreGroup portraits 1880-1900.Portrait photographs 1880-1900.Albumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesTitle translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 23. No. 220. In album: The Imperial Guard, War Ministry and barracks, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsZouaves--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,218 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-153950

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