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40 photos and 11 illustrations tagged empire, from 14 members of Flickr Commons.

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Sultan's Palace, Constantinople (LOC)

  • Art Siegel said:
    This is Dolmabahçe Palace, "located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European coastline of the Bosphorus strait, [which] served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1922, apart from a 22-year interval (1887–1909) in which Yıldız Palace was used. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmabah%C3%A7e_Palace To the left of the palace is Dolmabahçe Mosque. mosques.inistanbul.com/nm-Dolmabahce_Mosque-cp-117 A tinted version of this postcard, from the Harvard Fine Arts Library is at: archnet.org/library/images/one-image.jsp?location_id=9467... It is credited to Éditeurs MJC (Moïse Jsraelowitz, Constantinople)
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    artolog, thanks for giving us the name of the palace and the mosque. We'll update our records.

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  • A30yoyo said:
    Wearing WWII camouflage, and titled British Overseas Airways with Red ,White and Blue stripes underlining the civil registration G-AFCX, Clyde flew to La Guardia Marine Terminal during the Battle of Britain . It also flew to the Congo in 1940 with the French officials who negotiated the alignment of French Equatorial Africa with De Gaulle's Free French