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LL/84917
First announcement made in Ottoman territory of the discovery of photography; the article appeared in issue 186 of the daily Takvim-i Vekayi, October 28, 1839 (19 Saban 1255)
1839, 28 October
Newspaper article
 
Private collection of Engin Ozendes
© Engin Özendes Collection
 
LL/84917

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LL/42665
Jules Richard (1816-1891) [Attributed to]
Portrait d'un dignitaire persan, Téhéran
n.d.
Daguerreotype
 
Musée d'Orsay
(C) RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski, Europeana Identifier: RMNDO000000281589 ; Pho1979-39
 
LL/42665

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LL/67088
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
Constantinople. Grande Mosquée ?
1842-1844
Daguerreotype
8 x 9.5 cm (image)
 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
EST RESERVE EG2-715, Identifiant: ark:/12148/btv1b6902801n
 
LL/67088

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LL/112616
Unidentified daguerreotypist / Unidentified engraver
Smyrna, from a daguerreotype taken on the roof of the Governor's House
1845
Engraving, from a daguerreotype
4.75 x 5.75 in.
 
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2011.099
 
LL/112616 [Further details available]

5 of 60
LL/98127
Ernest de Caranza
Côté sud de la mosquée de Suleyman, Constantinople
1854
Photograph
 
Getty Research Institute
ID/Accession No.: 96.R.14 (PP1.02)
 
LL/98127

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LL/98128
Ernest de Caranza
Mosquée de Thopkhané
1854
Photograph
 
Getty Research Institute
ID/Accession No.: 96.R.14 (PP1.05)
 
LL/98128

7 of 60
LL/98139
Ernest de Caranza
Fontaine de Ste. Sophie (Constantinople)
[Photographies Constantinople]
1852
Photograph
 
Getty Research Institute
ID/Accession No.: 96.R.14(A1)
 
LL/98139

8 of 60
LL/77319
Unidentified photographer
Group portrait of a possibly Turkish group
1860 (ca)
Tintype, framed
 
Private collection of Jason David Wright
 
LL/77319

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LL/88193
Alexander Svoboda
Ayaslouk: Ruines de la grande Mosquée (intérieur). - Dessin de Guland d'apres une photographie de M. Svoboda.
1864
Magazine illustration
 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
ark:/12148/bpt6k343847
 
LL/88193 [Further details available]

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LL/88195
A. de Moustier
Bas-relief dit de Sésostris, chaîne de Tmolus, près Nymphi
1864
Magazine illustration
 
Google Books
 
LL/88195 [Further details available]

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LL/25257
James Robertson
Mosque of Soliman the Magnificent (Solimanyah, Constantinople)
1855
Albumen print
25 x 30,4 cm
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Sale: 90, Lot: 4125, Dec 5, 2007)
 
LL/25257 [Further details available]

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LL/94830
Sebah & Joaillier
Interior of the Hagia Sophia, Constantinople
1870s
Albumen prints (x6)
54 x 74 cm (image)
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 114, 4 December 2019, Lot: 4061
 
LL/94830 [Further details available]

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LL/124204
Unidentified photographer
Constantinople - Turkish Cemetery
1839-1860
Salt print
 
Soprintendenza Archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Bologna e le province di Modena, Reggio Emilia e Ferrara
Codine di Catalogo Nazionale: 0800366342
 
LL/124204 [Further details available]

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LL/86083
Abdullah frères
Street vendor selling cakes
n.d.
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Dr. Adrian-Silvan Ionescu
 
LL/86083

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LL/86086
Abdullah frères
Whirling Derviches
n.d.
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Dr. Adrian-Silvan Ionescu
 
LL/86086

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LL/102129
Abdullah frères
Portrait of a woman, possibly Circassian
1879, October (handwritten)
Carte de visite, hand-coloured
 
Private collection of Simon Post
 
LL/102129

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LL/95194
Abdullah frères
Turkish Cemetery, Istanbul
1878 (ca)
Cabinet card
 
University of Chicago, University Library, Middle East Photo Archive
Work-ID: 410A
 
LL/95194

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LL/95195
Abdullah frères
Entrance of the Bosphorus into the Black Sea or Euxine
1878 (ca)
Cabinet card
 
University of Chicago, University Library, Middle East Photo Archive
Work-ID: 409A
 
LL/95195

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LL/118334
Ferrier & Soulier
987 Constantinople Mosquee de Dolma (Dolmabahçe Mosque)
1850s (late)
Stereoview, glass
 
Private collection of Barry Wick
 
LL/118334

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LL/120988
Pascal Sebah
[Ulu Camii Interior (The Grand Mosque)]
n.d.
Stereoview
 
Private collection of Robert Olson
 
LL/120988

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LL/118335
Ferrier & Soulier
987 Constantinople Mosquee de Dolma (Dolmabahçe Mosque)
1850s (late)
Stereoview, glass, half
 
Private collection of Barry Wick
 
LL/118335

24 of 60
LL/109555
Benjamin West Kilburn
Ice cream merchant, Constantinople, Turkey
1898, 12 March (ca)
Stereoview
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-10647 (digital file from original stereograph) LC-DIG-ds-00007 (digital file from original stereograph)
 
LL/109555 [Further details available]

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LL/86091
Herman Leon (Constantinople)
Whirling Derviches
n.d.
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Dr. Adrian-Silvan Ionescu
 
LL/86091

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LL/46243
Guillaume Berggren
Turquie. Un porteur
1870 (ca)
Albumen print
18 x 24 cm
 
Photo Verdeau
 
LL/46243

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LL/85643
Guillaume Berggren
Porter
1875 (ca)
Albumen print
13.4 x 9.8 cm
 
Moderna Museet
Purchase 1990, FM 1990 004 032
 
LL/85643

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LL/40076
Abdullah frères
Elégante Turque, Constantinople
1870 (ca)
Albumen print
20 x 25 cm
 
Photo Verdeau
 
LL/40076

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LL/52585
Abdullah frères
The ward for infectious diseases in the Hasköy Hospital for Women
[Abdul-Hamid II Collection]
1880-1893
Albumen print
15 3/16 x 12 ins (mount)
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Call Number: LOT 9534, Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-11669 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-81595 (b&w film copy neg.)
 
LL/52585

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LL/123794
Vassilaki Kargopoulo
Merchant selling greens (?)
1860 (ca)
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Fostin Cotchen
 
LL/123794

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LL/52559
Pascal Sebah
Premiéré Partie, Planche I: Bourgeois de Constantinople
[Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873]
1873
Title page
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Id: GT1267 .H2
 
LL/52559 [Further details available]

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LL/46252
Sebah & Joaillier
Portrait d'une jeune femme Turque
1880 (ca)
Albumen print
20 x 25 cm
 
Photo Verdeau
 
LL/46252

33 of 60
LL/88203
Arif Hikmet Koyunoglu
Street vendor in a street of Eyüp (Marchand ambulant dans une rue d’Eyüp)
1905
Photograph
 
Private collection of Engin Ozendes
 
LL/88203

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LL/84282
Unidentified photographer
Portrait of Ali Sami Aközer [Garden of Imperial School of Engineers, Istanbul]
1890
Photograph
 
Private collection of Engin Ozendes
 
LL/84282 [Further details available]

35 of 60
LL/82722
Unidentified photographer
Constantinople
[Die Mittelmeerfahrt der "Augusta Victoria"]
1891
Collotype, book plate
 
Sotheby's - London
Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History, 15 May 2018, Lot: 309
 
LL/82722 [Further details available]

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LL/84229
Ali Sami Aközer
Adjutant Ahmed Emin, with his photographic equipment [Servili Ahmed Emin]
1886
Albumen print
 
Private collection of Engin Ozendes
 
LL/84229

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LL/97119
Bogos Tarkulyan
Studio portrait of two young men
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Engin Ozendes
 
LL/97119

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LL/97122
Bogos Tarkulyan
Group portrait
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Engin Ozendes
 
LL/97122

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LL/97120
Nicolas Andriomenos
Studio portrait of a boy
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Engin Ozendes
 
LL/97120

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LL/97118
Unidentified photographer
Studio portrait of a young child with a cane
n.d.
Photograph
 
Private collection of Engin Ozendes
 
LL/97118

41 of 60
LL/97121
Unidentified photographer (Beirit)
Group portrait
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Engin Ozendes
 
LL/97121

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LL/84182
Unidentified photographer
Two soldiers in front of a background showing Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
n.d.
Gelatin silver print
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/84182

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LL/31816
Augustus Francis Sherman
[Turkish man]
1906-1914 (ca)
Platinum print
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 1206551
 
LL/31816 [Further details available]

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LL/105964
John Henry Haynes
Wolfe Expedition: Carchemish, two fragments of a single orthostat relief with inscription in hieroglyphic Luwian.
[Wolfe Expedition]
1884
Albumen print
18.5 x 23 cm
 
Cornell University Library
The J. R. Sitlington Sterrett Collection of Archaeological Photographs, Identifier: Sterrett_043
 
LL/105964 [Further details available]

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LL/105965
John Henry Haynes
Wolfe Expedition: Carchemish
[Wolfe Expedition]
1884
Albumen print
18.5 x 23 cm
 
Cornell University Library
The J. R. Sitlington Sterrett Collection of Archaeological Photographs, Identifier: Sterrett_044
 
LL/105965 [Further details available]

46 of 60
LL/60689
W. L. Sachtleben
Corpses of massacred Armenians in Erzurum
1895, 30 October (taken) 1895, 7 Dec (published)
Magazine illustration
 
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
 
LL/60689 [Further details available]

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LL/100344
Rubellin
Coffee shop in the turkish quarter [Turks. Turkey, Izmir (Smyrna)]
End of XIX - beginning of XX centuries
Photograph
 
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Museum number: MAE I 2072-62
 
LL/100344

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LL/45096
Unidentified photographer
Tea drinkers, Istanbul
1895 (ca)
Photochrom
 
Photoinstitut Bonartes
© Photoinstitut Bonartes
 
LL/45096 [Further details available]

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LL/45097
Unidentified photographer
In front of a mosque, Istanbul
1895 (ca)
Photochrom
 
Photoinstitut Bonartes
© Photoinstitut Bonartes
 
LL/45097 [Further details available]

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LL/101466
Raphael (18..-19..? ; religieux)
Chétiens de Diarbékir [hommes] / Chétiens de Diarbékir [femme]
[[Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon, 40 phot. prises en 1904 par le frère Raphaël]]
1904
Photograph, tipped in
 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
Département Société de Géographie, SG WD-149, Identifier : ark:/12148/btv1b531680094
 
LL/101466

51 of 60
LL/101470
Raphael (18..-19..? ; religieux)
Chrétiennes de Mardin / Turcs de la tribu Muchkévié de Mardin
[[Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon, 40 phot. prises en 1904 par le frère Raphaël]]
1904
Photograph, tipped in
 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
Département Société de Géographie, SG WD-149, Identifier : ark:/12148/btv1b531680094
 
LL/101470

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LL/101472
Raphael (18..-19..? ; religieux)
Chaldéens et Syriens de la province de Mardin [hommes] / Chaldéens et Syriens de la province de Mardin [femme et enfants]
[[Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon, 40 phot. prises en 1904 par le frère Raphaël]]
1904
Photograph, tipped in
 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
Département Société de Géographie, SG WD-149, Identifier : ark:/12148/btv1b531680094
 
LL/101472

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LL/33047
Turkish women
1930
Postcard
 
Private collection of John Toohey
 
LL/33047

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LL/103011
Unidentified photographer (Turkish?)
A Turkish soldier
1940s (ca)
Gelatin silver print, snapshot
 
Private collection of John Toohey
 
LL/103011

55 of 60
LL/117706
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Fig packing factory, Izmir (Smyrma), Turkey.
1934
Silver print
11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in. (29.8 x 23.8 cm.)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Sale 2594, Fine Photographs: Celebrating 70 Years of Photographs at Swann, 10 February 2022, Lot: 105
 
LL/117706

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LL/94579
Unidentified photographer
[The photograph studio which has been recently constructed within the Imperial School of Engineering] / the photograph studio of the Imperial School of Engineering.
[Military facilities and personnel, schools, student portraits, and factories, Ottoman Empire]
1880-1900
B & W film copy neg.
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Abdul-Hamid II Collection, Call Number/Physical Location: LOT 11917, no. 41 [item] [P&P], Digital Id: cph 3b47294 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b47294, Library of Congress Control Number: 2003675735, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-82547 (b&w film copy neg.)
 
LL/94579 [Further details available]

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LL/100954
Niagara Lithograph Co. (Buffalo, N. Y.)
Take a Kodak with you
n.d.
Poster
 
Richard T. Rosenthal
 
LL/100954 [Further details available]

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LL/113519
Jean Weinberg
Book cover for Jean Weinberg, 1933, Gazin´in eseri, ([Istanbul])
1933
Book cover
 
Private collection of Engin Ozendes
 
LL/113519 [Further details available]

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LL/88242
Chris Hadfield
Istanbul at night, photographed from the ISS
2013, 7 April
Digital image
 
NASA
 
LL/88242

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60 images
Years
1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860
1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871
1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882
1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926
1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Contents - Themes & Fragments
1840-1860 - Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: The Ancient and Classical World
Aerial - Satellite and space station imaging
Albums - Raphael: Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon (1904)
Albums - Turkey: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (1880-1893)
Amateur photography - Kodak advertising
Anthropology and ethnology - Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits
Anthropology and ethnology - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
Archaeology - Introduction to archaeological photography
Archaeology - Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: The Ancient and Classical World
Armenia - Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
Armenia - Raphael: Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon (1904)
Armenian massacres (1915-1923) - Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
Art - Paintings and prints based on photographs or vice versa
Backgrounds and foregrounds - Introduction to backgrounds and foregrounds
Balustrades - Props, accessories and novelties: Balustrades
Cartes de visite - Abdullah frères: Turkey: Cartes de visite portraits
Cartes de visite - Cartes de visite: Ethnic and traditional costumes
Cartes de visite - Painted cartes de visite
Characters and occupational types - Porters
Characters and occupational types - Street vendors
Christianity - Raphael: Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon (1904)
Cityscapes - Urban - Introduction to cityscapes and the urban context
Cityscapes - Urban - James Robertson: Constantinople
Cityscapes - Urban - Landscape: Cityscapes
Colour - Photochroms
Composition - Introduction to backgrounds and foregrounds
Consumables - Coffee
Consumables - Tea
Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Exteriors
Daguerreotypists - Turkey - Daguerreotypes: Turkey
Dead - Graveyards, cemeteries, gravestones and memorials
Ethnic and traditional costumes - Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits
Ethnic and traditional costumes - Cartes de visite: Ethnic and traditional costumes
Ethnic and traditional costumes - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
Ethnic and traditional costumes - Pascal Sebah: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873
Evidence - Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
Exteriors of photographic studios - Photographs of the exteriors of nineteenth century photographic shops and studios
Fabricated realities - Introduction to backgrounds and foregrounds
Group portraits - Group portraits
Hand-painted photographs - Painted cartes de visite
Immigrants and immigration - Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits
Introduction to Luminous-Lint - The global spread of photography
Iraq - Raphael: Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon (1904)
Islam - Islamic architecture
Islamic architecture - Constantinople - Istanbul: Santa Sophia Mosque
Islamic architecture - Islamic architecture
Kodak - Kodak advertising
Leisure - Leisure: Reading
Marketing - Photographs of the exteriors of nineteenth century photographic shops and studios
New York - Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits
Non-canonical photography - Non-canonical examples
Occupational - Guillaume Berggren: Occupationals
Occupational - Introduction to occupationals
Occupational - Porters
Occupational - Stereoviews: Occupations and roles
Occupational - Street vendors
Occupations and roles - Introduction to occupationals
Occupations and roles - Street vendors
Occupations and roles - Turkey: Porters
Painting on photographs - Painted cartes de visite
Peoples of the world - Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits
Peoples of the world - Cartes de visite: Ethnic and traditional costumes
Peoples of the world - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
Peoples of the world - Dervishes
Peoples of the world - Pascal Sebah: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873
Photo-mechanical processes - Photochroms
Photochromes - Photochroms - Photochroms
Photograph frames and easels - Photograph frames
Photographers - Illustrations of people taking photographs
Photographic studios - Photographs of the exteriors of nineteenth century photographic shops and studios
Portrait - Tintypes: Portraits
Props - Props, accessories and novelties: Balustrades
Refugees - Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits
Religious architecture - Islamic architecture
Remnants of the Ancient and Classical world - Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: The Ancient and Classical World
Satellite imaging - Satellite and space station imaging
Snapshots - Kodak advertising
Social life of photographs - Photograph frames
Social outsiders - Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits
Sports and pastimes - Leisure: Reading
Storage and display - Photograph frames
Surveillance - Satellite and space station imaging
Tintypes - Tintypes: Examples
Tintypes - Tintypes: Portraits
Trends - The global spread of photography
Turkey - Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
Turkey - Constantinople - Istanbul: Fountains
Turkey - Constantinople - Istanbul: Santa Sophia Mosque
Turkey - Constantinople - Istanbul: Süleymaniye Mosque
Turkey - Constantinople, The Architecture
Turkey - Daguerreotypes: Turkey
Turkey - Ernest de Caranza: Turkey
Turkey - Guillaume Berggren: Occupationals
Turkey - Introduction to photography in Turkey
Turkey - James Robertson: Constantinople
Turkey - Pascal Sebah: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873
Turkey - Rubellin: Turkey, Smyrna (Izmir)
Turkey - Sebah and Joaillier: Portraits
Turkey - Studio portraits in Turkey
Turkey - Turkey: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (1880-1893)
Turkey - Turkey: Porters
Turkey - Turkey: Women in ripose
USA - Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits
World's Fairs and International Exhibitions - Pascal Sebah: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873


 
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