Turkey Collection (page 89)

Night Watchman crying Fire
A Night Watchman cries " Fire!". There were continual fires in Constantinople - only the very rich merchants and Pashas could afford stone houses

Mosque Interior
View of the interior of a mosque in Turkey with worshippers

Site / Ruins of Pergamon - Turkey
The Ancient Bridge with the Basilica behind at Pergamon (or Pergamum). An ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, in Mysia, north western Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea

Constantinople - Rowing on the Golden Horn
Golden Water - Golden Sky. Constantinople - Rowing on the Golden Horn

Constantinople - A Street scene in Uskudar
Uskudar (Scutari) - A street scene. Constantinople, Turkey

Steam ferryboat on the Bosphorus near Bebek returning to Istanbul

Constantinople - Rumeli Hisari
View toward the Rumeli Hisari, a Fortress on the European side of the Bosphorus. Built by Mehmet II 1451-1452 prior to his conquering of Constantinople. The castle was completed in 4 months

Turkish shop in Bursa
Turkish street merchants outside a general hardware store at Bursa - Turkey

Constantinople - Yeni Cami Mosque
The Yeni Cami ( New Mosque of the Valide Sultan ) at Constantinople, Turkey. Standing at the Stanboul end of the Galata Bridge

Constantinople - Pera - Grand Street
Steps on the Grand Street of Pera, Istanbul (European side of the Bosphorus) by the side of the Golden Horn

Robert College, Istanbul
Founded in 1863 by two Americans, philanthropist Christopher Rhinelander Robert and Cyrus Hamlin, to offer an " American style" education under the Ottoman Empire

Pamukkale - Turkey
Pamukkale, meaning " cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site and attraction in south-western Turkey in the Denizli Province

German Sailor - Constantinople
German sailor in Constantinople

Turkish ice Cream seller
Constantinople - An ice cream seller with a female client

Turkish Orange Vendor
A Turkish Orange vendor

Constantinople - View taken from the Galata Tower looking from the European toward the Asian side of the Bosphorus

Constantinople - Cemetery at Eyoub
The Cemetery at Eyoub with Cypress Trees. The name Eyp comes from Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the companion and Standard Bearer of the Prophet Muhammad

Constantinople - The Burnt Column
The Column of Constantine (or Burnt Column ) is a monumental column constructed on the orders of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great in 330 AD

Large waterwheel at Antakya
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. One of the large waterwheels for which Antioch is famed

Ankara, Turkey - The Belkiz Sutunu. A Byzantine column with a (lucky) stork nesting at the top

Miletus, Turkey
Ruins of the Theatre at Miletus, Turkey. Miletus was an ancient city on the western coast of Anatolia (in what is now Aydin Province), near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria

Walls of Constantinople close to the Adrinople Gate

Turkish Sheepdog
A fantasy impression of what Turkish sheepdog looks like - issued as a coffee advertising card - they don t look like this in real life!

Turkey - Basket Seller
A Basket Seller - Turkey

Lear / Nonsense / Turkey
There was a Young Lady of Turkey, who wept when the weather was murky; When the day turned out fine, she ceased to repine, that capricious Young Lady of Turkey

Constantinople - The Ministry of War
The Ministry of War at Constantinople, Turkey

Jetty scene on the Golden Horn
Typical scene at a typical jetty on the Golden Horn. Women are assisted into ferry boats for crossing the Golden Horn

Eyoub Cemetary - Constantinople
A lady leaving the Eyoub Cemetery, Constantinople

The Golden Horn - Constantinople
View across the Golden Horn, Constantinople

Prinkipo Yacht Club - Buyukada - Constantinople
Constantinople - Princes Islands - Buyukada - the largest of the nine islands (a place of exile for the Byzantine Empresses) set within a border of seashells

Constantinople - Cemetery with Pilgrims
Pilgrims who have completed the Hajj to Mecca gather at a Constantinople Cemetery

A Fountain - Constantinople
At the Fountain (well) - Constantinople

Constantinople - RMS Carinthia
RMS Carinthia was first laid down in Barrow-in-Furness in 1924 with the yard number Hull 586. Originally she had the name Servia but was renamed at the time of her launching on 24 February 1925

Constantinople - Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet
The Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Muhammad in the Old Palace, Constantinople

Minaret at Sivrihisar, Turkey
Possibly a former Christian structure, transformed into a Minaret in Sivrihisar (near Eskisehir) Turkey

Turkish newspaper boy
A newspaper seller, Cakal Suleyman, vendor of the Aksam Newspaper at Bandirma (Panderma), Turkey

Aspendos, Turkey - The Theatre
Aspendos, Turkey - The fabulous theatre, prior to extensive restoration in the past 50 years. Aspendos was an ancient Greco-Roman city in the Antalya province of Turkey

Prinkipo, Buyukada - Meydani - Place de Prinkipo
Constantinople - Princes Islands - Buyukada - Meydani - Place de Prinkipo - the largest of the nine islands (a place of exile for the Byzantine Empresses)

Early Turkish anti-aircraft gun team
Early anti-aircraft gunners. Turkish troops shooting down a Pigeon flying machine in the early years of the First World War

Mosque at Trabzon, Turkey
Mosque Entrance in Trabzon, Turkey

Gate and Tower, Istanbul, Turkey
Gate and Tower in the Istanbul City Walls

1st Balkan War - unexploded shell
Macedonia - a Turkish Notable (Dignitary) in his garden looking at a Bulgarian shell which had not exploded. The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913

Water Buffalo pulling a wagon - Constantinople, Turkey
Two Water Buffalo pull a wagon - Constantinople, Turkey

Russian Refugees in Turkey
During the First World War, Caucasian Russian refugees fled to Turkey. Here is a mixture of men, soldiers, women and children in Eastern Turkey

Panorama - Tophane & Bosphous, Constantinople
Panorama - View toward Tophane & the Bosphous, Constantinople at sunset. Tophane was where the principal military foundry of the Ottoman Empire used to be located

Ahmed Schukri Bey
Turkish Minister of Culture and Education during the First World War

View of the Bosphorus with old fortifications, villages and Mosques, Constantinople, Turkey

Fantasy card - flying over Constantinople
Wonderful fantasy card depicting British soldiers flying over the distinctive skyline and rooftops of Constantinople in a very early aeroplane (seemingly held together by string and luck)

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