Finding aid for Alascheir railway, Asia Minor, constructed by Samuel Bayliss,
CE, circa 1875
Beth Ann Guynn
Descriptive Summary
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.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Administrative Information
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
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.
Processing Information
The finding aid was written by Beth Ann Guynn and input by her and Linda Kleiger.
Digitized Materials
Digitized by the repository in 2017 and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/89r24.
Related Archival Materials
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.
Arrangement
Arranged in a single series:
Series I. Alascheir railway, Asia minor,
constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE, 1875.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Topics
Railroads -- Turkey
Railroad bridges -- Turkey -- Design and construction
Subjects - Places
Sardis (Extinct city)
Turkey -- Antiquities
Turkey -- Description and travel
Alaşehir (Turkey) -- Description and travel
Genres and Forms of Material
Photographs, Original
Albumen prints -- Turkey -- 19th century
Photograph albums -- Turkey -- 19th century
box 1
Series I.
Alascheir railway, Asia minor, constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE,
circa 1875
Alascheir railway, Asia minor, constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE (Digitized
version)
Scope and Content Note
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.
Arrangement
In original order.
page Front paste-down
89.R.24-fpe
Front paste-down
Scope and Content Note
Wet stamp on front paste-down: The / London / Stereoscopic / Company / 110 & 108
Regent Street / London.
page Front free endpaper
89.R.24-ffe
Index
Scope and Content Note
Printed index of plates.
page 1 recto
89.R.24-1r
General View of Casaba
page 2 recto
89.R.24-2r
Type of 30 Ft. Bridge, Outside Girders
page 3 recto
89.R.24-3r
General View of Achmetli Station, Type of 3rd Class Station
page 4 recto
89.R.24-4r
Passenger Station, Achmetli Station, Type of 3rd Class Station
page 5 recto
89.R24-5r
Goods Shed, Achmetli Station, Type of 3rd Class Station
page 6 recto
89.R.24-6r
Platelayers Hut, Achmetli Station, Type of 3rd Class Station
page 7 recto
89.R.24-7r
Achmetli Bridge, Type of Double 30 Ft. Under Girder Bridge
page 8 recto
89.R.24-8r
General View of Sardis
page 9 recto
89.R.24-9r
Ruins of Sardis
page 10 recto
89.R.24-10r
Hot Mineral Baths, Sardis
page 11 recto
89.R.24-11r
Quarrymen at Work, Sardis
page 12 recto
89.R.24-12r
Ruins of the Temple of Cybile, Sardis
page 13 recto
89,R.24-13r
Kourschid Pacha Halte, Tartan Tchiflik
page 14 recto
89.R.24-14r
General View of Salikli Station, Type of 2nd Class Station
page 15 recto
89.R.24-15r
Passenger Station, Salikli, Type of 2nd Class Station
page 16 recto
89.R.24-16r
Goods Shed, Salikli Station, Type of 2nd Class Station
page 17 recto
89.R.24-17r
Ancient Cemetery, Salikli
page 18 recto
89.R.24-18r
Type of 3. 30 Ft. Bridge, Outside Girders
page 19 recto
89.R.24-19r
View of Monavak-Cavé Station, Type of 4th Class Station
page 20 recto
90.R.24-20r
Goods Shed, Monavak-Cavé, Type of 4th Class Station
page 21 recto
89.R.24-21r
Type of Double 30 Ft. Bridge, Outside Girders
page 22 recto
89.R.24-22r
View of Mountains near Dere-Keui Station
page 23 recto
89.R.24-23r
Type of 3. 30 Ft. Bridge, Under Girders
page 24 recto
89.R.24.24r
View of Railway from the Heights of Alascheir
page 25 recto
89.R.24-25r
Engine House, Turntable, & Water Crane, Alascheir, Type of 2nd Class
Station
page 26 recto
89.R.24-26r
General View of Alascheir
page 27 recto
89.R.24-27r
Tender Engine
page 28 recto
89.R.24-28r
Tank Engine
Scope and Content Note
Plaque affixed to engine reads: Chediz.
page 29 recto
89.R.24-29r
Carriage Stock, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Carriages and Passenger Break Van
page 30 recto
89.R.24-30r
Wagon Stock, Covered Goods, Circular Ended, Cotton, and Low-sided
Wagons
