Photography

[PHOTOGRAPHY / THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR] A loose photograph collection, seventeen silver gelatines and three postcards documenting mass and individual deaths, executions and torture during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1935-1945)

[RARE PANORAMA OF CONSTANTINOPLE / JEWISH EDITORS] La Corne d'Or - Totalansicht des Goldenen Horns. Editör: Salomon Cohen, Jüksek Kalderim 118, Constatinople

[HELIOGRAVURE PHOTOGRAPHY / PROPAGANDA / NEW TURKISH REPUBLIC] Fotografla Türkiye = La Turquie en image = Turkey in pictures = Die Türkei im bild

[PANORAMA OF MEDINA / ARAB CITIES] Medîne: Umûmî görünüs [i.e., Medina: A panoramic view]

[ARAB CITIES / PHOTOGRAPHY] Souvenir d'Alep (Syrie). / Panoramique d'Alep. [i.e. Panorama of Aleppo]

[NORTHERN INDIA / ISLAM IN ASIA / INTERESTING MUHARRAM DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHIITE COMMUNITIES OF UTTAR PRADESH] A small archive of historical letters and photographs from Muslim Northern India by...

[ETHNIC GROUPS & MINORITIES OF CHINA / PROPAGANDA] 中国少数民族人物 / Zhôngguô shâo shû mînzû renwû = Glimpses of national minorities in China

[PHOTOGRAPH / RUSSIAN - OTTOMAN RELATIONS] Prisoner Exchange Congress held with Russian officials in Copenhagen

[BALKANS / PHOTOGRAPHY] Album with 17 original gelatine silver photographs showing antebellum Muslim Macedonia in 1907, before Balkan Wars (1910-1912)

[MOST-MARRIED MAN FROM YEMEN] Original press photo with the stamp of Associated Press Ltd. of London, of soldier-poet to the court of Yemen, Al-Qadi al-Hahdrânî.

[MIDDLE EAST / ADRIANOPLE / ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE] Early four photographs taken in the Republican period of decorative elements of the mosques in Edirne (Adrianople) city

[MIDDLE EAST / AFGHANISTAN] Nadir Shah leaving the palace with his military delegation in ca. 1930s.

[ALEPPO / SYRIA] Alep: Zoukak El- Khalle (Rue du Vinaigre). Edited by V. Derounian

[LOVELY STUDIO MISE-EN-SCENE] Four children in a great mise-en-scene of Resne Photography Studio

[WORLD WAR I / UKRAINE / RUSSIA / GERMANY] Three original photographs showing German and Russian soldiers on the Ukrainian front, German colonel Höfer and subordinates, and the Ukrainian statesmen and soldiers signing the peace protocol

[FIRST FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER OF TURKEY] Original unnamed photograph: Heap on the seashore

[FIRST FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER OF TURKEY] Original unnamed photograph: Mihrab of the Mosque in the Alhambra

[SOUVENIR ALBUM - MIDDLE EAST] Souvenir du Caire, aux petit profits Behar et Fils

[MIDDLE EAST / ARCHEOLOGY / ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS] Original 51 gelatin silver photos documenting ruins, buildings and remnants of Olba Kingdom and the Roman Empire around Mersin and Adana cities

["WEIRD ART OF A FRENCH NAMED DAGUERRE": DAGUERRE'S INVENTION IN THE FIRST OTTOMAN OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER] Takvim-i Vekâyi: Def'a 186, fî 19 S[aban] sene 1255 [i.e. Calendar of events: No 186, October 28, 1839

[MIDDLE EAST / MINERALOGY / SCIENTIFIC VOYAGES] Original twenty-three gelatin silver photos documenting the voyage to East Anatolia for collecting minerals from August 25, 1953 to October 20, 1953...

[MIDDLE EAST / CONSTANTINOPLE / ISTANBUL] Nineteen original photographs showing Ottoman architectural buildings and social life in Istanbul and the Bosphorus

[MIDDLE EAST / CONSTANTINOPLE] Original stereoscope and a gelatin silver photograph of Constantinople in 1905.

[MIDDLE EAST / TREBIZOND] Two b/w photographs of Trebizond (Trabzon)