türkiye

Hi, this photo is being discussed in one of the projects in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!

Such a suprise to me. There had been so many ships and boats. Haliç was barely seen. Interesting!

On the left there is a capital hand writing: STAMBOUL, then commonly used for İstanbul. On the bottom left is a writing, first what seems to be initials H.H.(?) and 'Vue panoramique Constantinople (?)' Can anyone make out the last word?

I can't quite make out the middle part of white on white. But I think it definitely ends in "de Galata." This might refer to the View of Constantinople taken from the Galata Tower or a View of Constantinople including the lower parts of Galata in the foreground. I'm not sure. Although, if it's from Galata Tower, we should be able to see the Ottoman Bank (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g10000/3g11000/3g11600/3g11646v.jpg). You can see a better panorama on the LOC Web site: http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/pan.6a35826/

The neighborhood is so delightfully cluttered that it's hard to pick out any individual buildings. Try to pick out the bank building in this photo for example: www.flickr.com/photos/zoutedrop/2886498879/in/photostream/ I'm pretty sure this was taken from Galata Tower. The mosque on the skyline at left is almost certainly the Hagia Sophia and the one to its right is probably the Blue Mosque, as it's in the right place and has the right number of minarets.

This had me confused because the only Scutari I know is modern Shkodër, in Albania. But this is apparently Üsküdar, now part of Istanbul, the location of Florence Nightingale's hospital in the Crimean War. It also was used as a location in a recent James Bond movie.

This vue panoramique is presumably from the same source as www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2990280352/ and www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162732999/ given the use of the same italicized font. And judging from satellite photos via Google, they are probably all taken from Galata Tower as Jim Rees suggested for www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2990280352/

A better caption for this would be "View of Scutari (Üsküdar) from Beyoğlu."

Thanks, both of you! The hints you provided directed us to one of our panoramic photographs titled: Panorama de Constantinople, pris de La Tour de Galata, taken in the 1880's by French photographers Sebah & Joaillier, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a35826. We'll fix the caption title of this image in the source data and reload the description.

near Albanien and Montenegro look more// google balkan War

Thank you very much for sharing this beautiful photo!

Seen in "Osmanlı (Ottoman Style)" Group

So beautiful,what a fantastic series this is,thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you to the folks making these prints available.

wow..

WOW ... just so ... amazingly gorgeous ! ok forget about Photoshop & get out there with your 10 x 8 field camera ? :o)

preciosa!!!

Genial!