Turkey Collection (#76)

The Andrinople Gate - Constantinople, Turkey

Turkish Professor reading a text
A Turkish professor, wearing a large white turban, lies down to readi a text on a fine Turkish carpet (or four!) with a Hookah Pipe on a small hexagonal Mother-of-pearl inlaid table behind him

Regular Fireman - Constantinople, Turkey
Regular fireman in constantinople drill at their compound, practising scaling the side of a dummy building with long ladders and hosing down a fire

Carpet Selling - Constantinople Bazaar
Carpet sellers at the Constantinople Bazaar

Turkish Firemen - Constantinople, Turkey
Buyukdere fire brigade team in their striped uniforms and bobble hats! They surround their highly decorated maual firefighting pump

The Summer Palace Hotel - Constantinople
The Summer Palace Hotel - Therapia, Constantinople. Owned by M. Tokatlian, an Armenian

Three Tired old Turkish Men
Three Tired old Turkish men sitting outside, having a chat

Porters carrying a large barrel on two long yolks
Turkish Porters carrying a large strengthed barrel (possibly containing oil?) on two long yolks

Irregular Fireman - Constantinople, Turkey
A gang of irregular firemen and their manual pump

Feather Seller - Turkey
A door-to-door itinerant feather seller in Constantinople, Turkey. He also carries a bunch of grapes on his head!

Sponge, nuts and fig Sellers - turkey
Itinerant street vendors of Sponges, Figs and Nuts in Constantinople, Turkey

Patriotic Black Sea Turkish Horse Display Team
The Black Sea Turkish Patriotic Horse Display Team in action

Turkish Postman
A Turkish postman with satchel and long stick checks a signpost to make sure he is delivering to the correct address!

Turkish railway locomotive
Turkey - Locomotive for the route to Damascus and beyond. The engine weighed 47 tonnes!

Turkish woman from Constantinople
Veiled turkish Woman from Constantinople, Turkey with a star in her hair and her scarf/veil covereing a bow on top of her head

Boatmen on the Golden Horn, Constantinople, Turkey

Pottery Merchants
A pottery merchant and customer stand between wares piled high in a large wicker backpack and engage in tense negotiation

Elderly Water Vendor
Elderly itinerant water vendor from Constantinople, Turkey

Women in Turkey in Street Dress
Women in Turkey in Street Clothes of elaborate pattern and colour

A Pottery Factory
Workers (and the manager or owner - at right) in a Turkish pottery and sand-casting factory

Turkish Bath scene
A Scene inside a Turkish bath. One gentleman reads the daily newspaper, while three serving boys stand at the rear awaiting instruction

Turkish Woman in their wagon
Turkish women with attendants in their traditional covered (and lavishly decorated) wagon, drawn by oxen

The Beautiful Miss Marigo. An attractive lady in sheer see-through semi-transparent silken drape with white polka dots

Carpet Sellers - Constantinople, Turkey
Carpet Selling in the Constantinople Bazaar from an open stall

Cooking Utensil Salesman
Itinerant cooking utensil salesman, with a wicker backpack and hand basket, containing brushes and wooden platters

Turkish woman from Smyrna (Izmir) clutching an umbrella

A Turkish Woman - portrait photograph
A studio portrait of a veiled woman resting her arm on the back of a wooden seat

Shoeshine Boy - Turkey
Turkish shoeshine boy (or in this case man!) brushes his clients boots to a gleaming finish

Camel Train and Owner - Chanak, Turkey
Camel Train and owner at Chanak, Turkey with some children in the foreground

Patriotic pro-Turkish card depicting a veiled Turkish woman in flowing see-through white robes, carrying and waving a large Turkish flag

Offal seller - Constantinople
In Turkey, unwanted offal is used to feed cats. Here an offal vendor cuts off some dinner for a womans pet cat. Possibly a liver seller

A Group of Turkish Women - Constantinople
A Group of Turkish Women walking in Constantinople, Turkey

Grand Turkish Lady
A Grand Turkish Lady with fine wall decoration behind

Turkish woman with long white veil
A postcard from Egypt depicting a Turkish Ottoman Woman wearing a long white veil

Reclining Turkish Woman
A fine photograph postcard depiction of a reclining Turkish woman, holding a string of prayer beads (Tesbih)

Mademoiselle Rosalia
The Charming and Fragrant beauty of Constantinople - Mademoiseel Rosalia

Miss Calavalava - a known beauty. Smoking a hookah pipe and leaning on a divan

Macedonian Butcher at work
A Macedonian butcher cuts up a sheep

Three Turkish Women - veiled
Three veiled Turkish women. Interestingly showing their ankles - showing a certain level of relaxation on the stringent dress code for women in the Ottoman Empire

Turkish Woman wearing the Turkish flag
Turkish woman draped in the National flag leaning on a plant stand

Turkish Movie Star from Izmir
Unidentified 1920s Turkish Film Actress from Izmir (Smyrna)

A dancing girl - Constantinople, Turkey
A beautiful young dancing girl from Constantinople, Turkey, holding a tamborine

Lady of the Smyrna (Izmir)
Elegant lady from Smyrna (Izmir), veiled and seated

Turkish veiled beauty and Battleship
A veiled Turkish beauty in a decorative inset oval, above an illustration of a Turkish World War One era Battleship

Girls in traditional Turkish costume
Two young girls in traditional Turkish rural costume

Group of Gypsies by the Sweet Waters, Istanbul
Group of Gypsies seated by the Sweet Waters, Constantinople, Turkey

Beauty of the Turkish Harem
An attractive decorative card of German original, but with Turkish theme, with the Turkish Sultans seal as the sun above a posing beauty from the Harem

Turkish Woman carrying vegetables
Two Turkish peasant women carrying a variety of vegetables and animal fodder in baskets balanced on their heads

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