Finding aid for Alascheir railway, Asia Minor, constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE, circa 1875 89.R.24

Beth Ann Guynn
Special Collections
2017
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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.

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

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.

Arrangement

Arranged in a single series: Series I. Alascheir railway, Asia minor, constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE, 1875.

Digitized Materials

Digitized by the repository in 2017 and the images are available online: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/89r24.

Processing Information

The finding aid was written by Beth Ann Guynn and input by her and Linda Kleiger.

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.

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

 

Alascheir railway, Asia minor, constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE, Series I. circa 1875

Alascheir railway, Asia minor, constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE (Digitized version)

Arrangement

In original order.

Scope and Contents

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.
box 1, page Front paste-down

Front paste-down 89.R.24-fpe

Scope and Contents

Wet stamp on front paste-down: The / London / Stereoscopic / Company / 110 & 108 Regent Street / London.
box 1, page Front free endpaper

Index 89.R.24-ffe

Scope and Contents

Printed index of plates.
box 1, page 1 recto

General View of Casaba 89.R.24-1r

box 1, page 2 recto

Type of 30 Ft. Bridge, Outside Girders 89.R.24-2r

box 1, page 3 recto

General View of Achmetli Station, Type of 3rd Class Station 89.R.24-3r

box 1, page 4 recto

Passenger Station, Achmetli Station, Type of 3rd Class Station 89.R.24-4r

box 1, page 5 recto

Goods Shed, Achmetli Station, Type of 3rd Class Station 89.R24-5r

box 1, page 6 recto

Platelayers Hut, Achmetli Station, Type of 3rd Class Station 89.R.24-6r

box 1, page 7 recto

Achmetli Bridge, Type of Double 30 Ft. Under Girder Bridge 89.R.24-7r

box 1, page 8 recto

General View of Sardis 89.R.24-8r

box 1, page 9 recto

Ruins of Sardis 89.R.24-9r

box 1, page 10 recto

Hot Mineral Baths, Sardis 89.R.24-10r

box 1, page 11 recto

Quarrymen at Work, Sardis 89.R.24-11r

box 1, page 12 recto

Ruins of the Temple of Cybile, Sardis 89.R.24-12r

box 1, page 13 recto

Kourschid Pacha Halte, Tartan Tchiflik 89,R.24-13r

box 1, page 14 recto

General View of Salikli Station, Type of 2nd Class Station 89.R.24-14r

box 1, page 15 recto

Passenger Station, Salikli, Type of 2nd Class Station 89.R.24-15r

box 1, page 16 recto

Goods Shed, Salikli Station, Type of 2nd Class Station 89.R.24-16r

box 1, page 17 recto

Ancient Cemetery, Salikli 89.R.24-17r

box 1, page 18 recto

Type of 3. 30 Ft. Bridge, Outside Girders 89.R.24-18r

box 1, page 19 recto

View of Monavak-Cavé Station, Type of 4th Class Station 89.R.24-19r

box 1, page 20 recto

Goods Shed, Monavak-Cavé, Type of 4th Class Station 90.R.24-20r

box 1, page 21 recto

Type of Double 30 Ft. Bridge, Outside Girders 89.R.24-21r

box 1, page 22 recto

View of Mountains near Dere-Keui Station 89.R.24-22r

box 1, page 23 recto

Type of 3. 30 Ft. Bridge, Under Girders 89.R.24-23r

box 1, page 24 recto

View of Railway from the Heights of Alascheir 89.R.24.24r

box 1, page 25 recto

Engine House, Turntable, & Water Crane, Alascheir, Type of 2nd Class Station 89.R.24-25r

box 1, page 26 recto

General View of Alascheir 89.R.24-26r

box 1, page 27 recto

Tender Engine 89.R.24-27r

box 1, page 28 recto

Tank Engine 89.R.24-28r

Scope and Contents

Plaque affixed to engine reads: Chediz.
box 1, page 29 recto

Carriage Stock, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Carriages and Passenger Break Van 89.R.24-29r

box 1, page 30 recto

Wagon Stock, Covered Goods, Circular Ended, Cotton, and Low-sided Wagons 89.R.24-30r