Yadgâr-i Istanbul : Constantinople photographs, between 1888 and 1910 LSC.94/276

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Title: Yadgâr-i Istanbul : Constantinople photographs
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.94/276
Physical Description: 1 albums album (20 photographic prints) : albumen, 16 x 22 cm (album)

Photographs (13 x 18 cm) are mounted on cards of heavy white stock (15 x 21 cm), one photo on each side. Captions, stock numbers, and name of photographer or studio in negative along lower margin. Most of the photographs are signed "Sébah & Joaillier," with a few signed "P. Sébah."

Bound in red pebble-grain cloth boards, panelled in blind; title and publisher stamped in gold on upper cover; glossy white textured endpapers.

Spec. Coll. copy: disbound; includes upper cover only, housed in white archival envelope; unbound photograph cards laid in 4-flap manila stock phase box; photographs and cover in modern beige cloth clamshell box, with spine label "Sébah & Joaillier. Constantinople."
Date (inclusive): between 1888 and 1910
Abstract: Souvenir album containing large mounted albumen prints of views of Istanbul, Turkey, published by the studio of Sébah & Joaillier, between 1888 and 1910.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
Language of Material: English .

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Yadgâr-i Istanbul : Constantinople photographs (Collection 94/276). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

General note

First part of title transliterated from Ottoman Turkish.

General note

Date suggested by years Pascal Sébah and Polycarpe Joaillier were associated and known as Sébah & Joaillier, beginning in 1888, and extending through ca. 1910.

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9968847303606533  

Biography/History

Jean Pascal Sébah was trained in photography as a young boy of sixteen by his brother Cosimi, following the death of their Syrian-born father, Pascal Sébah in 1886. Jean took over the studio in 1888, and entered into partnership with a Frenchman, Polycarpe Joaillier; the studio became known as Sébah & Joaillier. Based in Constantinople, they were the official photographers of the Sultan. According to the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, edited by John Hannavy, Sébah and Joaillier came to be the chief "suppliers of evocative imagery to the increasing number of people who undertook the Victorian Grand Tour" (see v. I, p. 1730-1734). Sébah & Joaillier continued in business until 1910 when Joaillier returned to France.

Scope and Content

In addition to the popular interior and exterior views of Saint Sophia mosque, the Sultan's mosque, and the Hippodrome, there are photographs of the Galata Tower, the ferry docks in the Eminönü district on the south side of the Golden Horn, and street scenes in the Scutari district on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus. Street scenes include merchants peering from their storefronts, a group of Turkish men in their native dress drinking small cups of coffee and smoking water pipes or hookahs, and an old date merchant, a huge wicker basked strapped to his back, holding a scale used to weigh out his dates. Two of the photographs feature a local cemetery and tall ornately engraved tombstones.

Related Material

Part of the Photograph Album Collection (Collection 94)   in UCLA Library Special Collections.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Constantinople
Smoking -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Photographs.
Turks -- Clothing -- Photographs.
Turks -- Photographs.
Coffeehouses -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Photographs.
Hookahs -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Photographs.
Bazaars (Markets) -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Photographs.
Sepulchral monuments -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Photographs.
Cemeteries -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Photographs.
Fountains -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Photographs.
Palaces -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Photographs.
Obelisks -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Photographs.
Mosques -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Photographs.
Street vendors -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Photographs.
Turkey -- Photographs.
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Photographs.
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs.
Galata (Istanbul, Turkey) -- Photographs.
Eminönü (Istanbul, Turkey) -- Photographs.
Büyükada (Turkey) -- Photographs.
Üsküdar (Istanbul, Turkey) -- Photographs.
Bosporus (Turkey) -- Photographs.
Albumen prints.
Photographic prints.
Photograph albums.
Sébah, J. Pascal, photographer.
Ayasofya Müzesi --Photographs.
Joaillier, Polycarpe, photographer.
Sébah & Joaillier, publisher.