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89.R.24
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Alascheir railway, Asia minor, constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE
Creator:
London Stereoscopic Company
Identifier/Call Number: 89.R.24
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
(30 photographs in 1 album)
Date: circa 1875
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Abstract: Alascheir Railway, Asia Minor, an album of 30 albumen prints by an unknown photographer, documents the completed extension
of the Smyrna Cassaba railroad from Cassaba to Alascheir (Alaşehir), Turkey, which was constructed under the direction of
Samuel Bayliss and completed in 1875.
Language of Material: Collection material is in English.
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Alascheir railway, Asia minor, constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE, circa 1875, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession
no. 89.R.24.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa89r24
The English company, Smyrna Cassaba Railway, built the railway of the same name in Turkey in the 1860s. In 1872 the Turkish
government granted the company rights to extend the line to Alascheir, increasing the rails to 108 miles. The extension opened
on 1 March 1875. The construction engineer, Samuel Bayliss (1821-1898), was a British civil engineer who oversaw the construction
of railroads in Egypt and Brazil prior to his work in Turkey.
Arranged in a single series: Series I. Alascheir railway, Asia minor, constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE, 1875.
Digitized by the repository in 2017 and the images are available online: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/89r24.
The finding aid was written by Beth Ann Guynn and input by her and Linda Kleiger.
The repository holds another album of the same title, that contains only 28 photographs and lacks an index. See the Pierre
de Gigord Collection of Photographs of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, Special Collections accession no. 96.R.14,
box 44.
Scope and Content of Collection
The album of 30 albumen prints by an unknown photographer documents the completed extension of the Smyrna Cassaba railroad
from Cassaba to Alascheir (Alaşehir), Turkey, which was constructed under the direction of Samuel Bayliss and completed in
1875. Included are city views of Cassaba and Alascheir, station buildings, two types of bridge construction, locomotives,
and railroad cars. Of particular interest are views of Sardis and the Temple of the Sibyl.
The album has brown full leather covers with gilt tooling and title on front cover. Plate titles are taken from the printed
index at the beginning of the album. The plate numbers are penciled on the mounts below the lower right corners of the images.
Wet stamp on front paste down: The / London / Stereoscopic / Company / 110 & 108 Regent Street / London.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from Photo Archive in 1989.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs, Original
Albumen prints -- Turkey -- 19th century
Photograph albums -- Turkey -- 19th century
Railroads -- Turkey
Railroad bridges -- Turkey -- Design and construction
Sardis (Extinct city)
Turkey -- Antiquities
Turkey -- Description and travel
Alaşehir (Turkey) -- Description and travel