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Turkey


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to photography in Turkey
Daguerreotypes
2Daguerreotypes: Turkey
Calotypes: Turkey
3Calotypes: Turkey
Early photographers in Constantinople
4Constantinople and its early photographic studios
Places
5Constantinople, The Architecture
6Constantinople - Istanbul: Fountains
7Constantinople - Istanbul: Santa Sophia Mosque
8Constantinople - Istanbul: Sultan Ahmed Mosque (The Blue Mosque)
9Constantinople - Istanbul: Süleymaniye Mosque
10Constantinople - Istanbul: Obelisk of Theodosius
11Constantinople - Istanbul: Dolmabahce Palace
12Constantinople - Istanbul: Galata
Studio portraits
13Studio portraits in Turkey
Stereotypes
14Turkey: Women in ripose
Occupationals
15Guillaume Berggren: Occupationals
16Turkey: Porters
Modernization
17Turkey: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (1880-1893)
Photographers
18Ernest de Caranza: Turkey
19James Robertson: Constantinople
20Robertson & Beato: Turkey: Constantinople - Istanbul
21John Kirk: Turkey: B.H. Renkioi
22Guillaume Berggren: Constantinople
23Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - Constantinople (1862)
24Vassilaki Kargopoulo: Stereoviews
25Abdullah frères: Constantinople
26Pascal Sebah: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873
27Sebah and Joaillier: Street life
28Sebah and Joaillier: Portraits
29Gulmez Freres: Turkey: Constantinople
30Rubellin: Turkey, Smyrna (Izmir)
Photographic studios of Constantinople
31Abdullah frères: Backmarks
32Nicolas Andriomenos: Backmarks
33Pascal Sebah: Backmarks
Conflict
34Album de la Société Ottomane de Secours aux Blessés Militaires, Guerre 1877-1878
35Armenian massacres

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