[The middle stone dock] / Abdullah Frères, Constantinople. – Historic Reproduction
![[The middle stone dock] / Abdullah Frères, Constantinople., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ef/ef0f02ed1530-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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[The middle stone dock] / Abdullah Frères, Constantinople. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[The middle stone dock] / Abdullah Frères, Constantinople.
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Stone docks like this one were the working heart of the Imperial Naval Arsenal at Constantinople, where the Ottoman navy built, repaired and fitted out its warships on the Golden Horn. The Abdullah Frères studio, a firm of court photographers in Istanbul, made this albumen print for an album of naval sites assembled between 1880 and 1893, during the reign of Sultan Abdul-Hamid II. The album was made for an Ottoman audience, which is why its captions appear in both Ottoman Turkish and English. Its careful attention to masonry, quays and the dock's layout makes it useful evidence of how the Arsenal presented its industrial strength at the time.
| Created / published | [between 1880 and 1893] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Albumen prints 1880-1900. |
| Notes | Located at the Imperial Naval Arsenal. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 33. No. 14. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy, Imperial Naval Arsenal, Navy Department, and bridges, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Piers & wharves--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. Naval yards & naval stations--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. Armories--Turkey--Istanbul--1880-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,111 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-154010 |
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