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Title: Alascheir railway, Asia minor, constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE
Date (inclusive): circa 1875
Number: 89.R.24
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
(30 photographs in 1 album)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
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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.
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Language: Collection material is in English.
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.
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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
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from Photo Archive in 1989.
The finding aid was written by Beth Ann Guynn and input by her and Linda Kleiger.
Digitized by the repository in 2017 and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/89r24.
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.
Arranged in a single series:
Series I. Alascheir railway, Asia minor,
constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE, 1875.
Railroads -- Turkey
Railroad bridges -- Turkey -- Design and construction
Sardis (Extinct city)
Turkey -- Antiquities
Turkey -- Description and travel
Alaşehir (Turkey) -- Description and travel
Photographs, Original
Albumen prints -- Turkey -- 19th century
Photograph albums -- Turkey -- 19th century