waterfronts

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.

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"The Watuppa was built in 1906 at the Burleigh Shipyard, Port Richmond, Staten Island, for towing coal barges to New England. In 1935, the tugboat was bought by the McCarren Towing Line, reconditioned, and was used to tow oil barges on the East and Hudson Rivers. The hemp and wooden fenders hanging from the tug's sides served as buffers when it approached ships and docks." (more) -- Museum of the City of New York Abbott made several exposures, capturing the tug's approach to the pier and showing its crew at dockside, but she chose this image of the Watuppa, taken from Brooklyn's Pier 5, for publication.

I want to live here for it is really clean and quite, and i would like invite my good friend who is a nice Chinese teacher of Mandarin school shanghai (www.mandarininn.cn/)