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Erzincan - mosque – Vintage Wall Art

Erzincan - mosque, [ca. 1918] — historic photograph
Erzincan - mosque, [ca. 1918]. 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 photographs from the Ottoman interior in these years show a town's religious life as plainly as this one of a mosque in Erzincan, a city in eastern Anatolia. The print comes from the Frank R. McCoy Collection, assembled by an American officer who served in the Near East during and after the First World War. Erzincan lay on the route between the Black Sea and the Armenian highlands, and by about 1918 the region had been battered by years of war, famine and upheaval. Images like this one record the built fabric of towns that were soon to be transformed or lost.

Created / published[ca. 1918]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesFrank R. McCoy Collection.
SubjectsMosques--Turkey--Erzincan--1910-1920. City & town life--Turkey--Erzincan--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 859 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-164198

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