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Photograph Album of North Africa and Turkey, circa 1880

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Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains a photo album comprised of 92 photographs circa 1880. The album features native inhabitants of the Middle East and Northern Africa, as well as photographs of prominent structures and cities in those regions. Photos of Turks come from a series issued in the 1870s by the studio of Pascal Sebah. These photos show costumes of Kurds, Armenians, Montenegrins, Bohemiennes, a Zeybeck, Eunuch of Sultan, a Turkish barber at work, and a woman in a palanquine. The portraits of...
Dates: circa 1880