[The first floor plan of the Imperial Military Academy] – Vintage Wall Art
![[The first floor plan of the Imperial Military Academy], [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e5/e5e7dd84ae39-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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This rare historic photograph captures [The first floor plan of the Imperial Military Academy] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[The first floor plan of the Imperial Military Academy]
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Rather than a view of the building, this print records its layout: the first-floor plan of the Imperial Military Academy in Istanbul, reproduced as an albumen print from an album captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. The album belongs to the collection associated with Sultan Abdul Hamid II, whose reign from 1876 to 1909 included sustained efforts to reorganize and expand Ottoman military schools. Plans like this one show how the rooms and corridors of a working academy were arranged, which makes them useful to researchers of late nineteenth-century Ottoman architecture and military training.
| Created / published | [between 1880 and 1893] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Architectural drawings Reproductions 1880-1900.Albumen prints 1880-1900. |
| Notes | Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 16. In album: The Imperial Military Academy and other military schools, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Military academies--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 579 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-153223 |
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