Crescent Collection (page 8)

Ottoman Empire Flag

German soldiers at Eskisehir
German troops pose with Turkish officials at Eskisehir, Turkey. In Latin it was known as Dorylaeum. Founded by the Phrygians in c.1000 BC

Group of Mevlevi Dervishes - Istanbul - with children
Group of Mevlevi Dervishes - Istanbul (Constantinople) - with childrenThe Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia). This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273)

Imperial Gates - Constantinople, Turkey
Imperial gates on the European side of the Bosphorus. A lady of the Harem sits astride the crescent moon of Turkey in an unusual addition to this fine card

Arab Woman with fine earrings - Egypt
Arab Woman with fine crescent moon-shaped earrings - Egypt

Egypt - Cairo - Kasr-el-Nil Bridge
Egypt - Cairo - the Pont de Ghazirah (a bridge over the Nile) and a street scene in the city

Egyptian scenes
A very early Egyptian postcard with scenes from the country including dhows and feluccas on the River Nile (set within a crescent motif) and a water carrier loading up a donkey

Turkish Red Crescent Medical Orderly
Turkish Red Crescent Military Medical Orderly during World War One

Christian propaganda postcard
A postcard depicting the Ayasofya Mosque with a fascinating inset picture showing the Turkish crescent shoe stamping on the Christian cross and on the reverse of the card the caption reads

An Ottoman National Anthem, which replaced the previous version in 1909

Postcard from a serving girl
A postcard message sent to Miss Elsie Underwood, Bournemouth from Lil, recently employed as one of ten servants working at No.2 Wilton Crescent, London S.W

Proclamation of the new Constitution - Salonica
The proclamation of the new Constitution - Salonica (now part of Greece), on 24th July 1908 - revolutionary military group from Resna, South West Macedonia under the commmand of Melek Bey

Ottoman Flags
Collection of Ottoman Flags

Ataturk Primary School
Pupils at the Ataturk Primary School -

Photo / Stripe Dress 1880S
Tight fitting, high-necked bodice, buttoning diagonally from shoulder to waist, kilted under-skirt, draped tunic caught up at the rear. Watch & crescent brooch

Fashionable flappers
Two young women, dressed in up-to-the-minute knee length dresses pose on a verandha or balcony under the light of a crescent moon

Park Crescent, London
Park Crescent, west London. Situated at the northern end of Portland Place, the imposing colonnaded front is by the architect John Nash, and was built in 1812

Disraeli and Asia Minor
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli repairs Asia Minor, claiming this improving of the noble Turk is his proudest work in this satire on early British Colonialism

Crescent Restaurant
The Crescent Restaurant (Forte s), at the Festival Pleasure Gardens, Battersea, London, part of the Festival of Britain celebrations

Festival Gardens 1951
Visitors relax on deckchairs while a gardener tends to the flower beds at the Festival Gardens, Battersea. Note the Guinness Clock (behind) and Crescent Restaurant (left)

Ernest Reyer / Trade Card
ERNEST REYER French composer with a scene from his opera, Salambo

Off to Work
Off to work, an early morning study of a gentleman walking along a pavement on Hans Crescent, London Sw1

County Hall / W James
A bird s-eye view of the former Government building which now houses a hotel and the London Aquarium

Sphinx Guard Dardanelles
The Turkish sphinx guards the Dardanelles

Lincoln / Oak Ridge
ABRAHAM LINCOLN His tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery, seen by moonlight

Airy / Sambourne / Punch
SIR GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY Astronomer Royal 1835-1881, depicted with the red time ball of the Greenwich Observatory

Folkestone / Beach 1931
Folkestone, Kent: beach and Marine Crescent

Ww1 Cartoon / No Doubt
NO POSSIBLE DOUBT WHATEVER " Alt! Who goes there?" " You shut yer -- mouth, or I ll -- come and knock yer -- head off!" " Pass, friend!"

Fur-Trim Dress 1914
Fur-trimmed gown of narrow trained skirt with front split & a V -necked wrap over tunic worn with a white fur- trimmed evening coat or wrap & a diamante headdress

Royal Crescent Bath
The Royal Crescent in Bath was designed by John Wood II and built between 1767 an 1775. It is comprised of 30 houses, and is shaped like a half- Colosseum, with Ionic columns

Blunt / Crescent Moon / Pl17
The crescent moon - a view over a landscape

Blunt / Suns Disc / Plate 7
The nomenclature of the lunar spots

England / Hastings / Pelham
The seafront showing Pelham Crescent

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