Ottoman Postcards

A recent ‘discovery’ in the Islamic collection in Rare Books and Special Collections, is a set of Ottoman-French postcards named Medjmouaï teçavir (Collection de costumes). There are 22 postcards with each image portraying a different cultural aspect of Ottoman customs and dress attire. Unfortunately, there is no date on the cards themselves but we can assume these date from the late 19th or early 20th centuries.Ottoman PC3For further reading on Ottoman costumes, have a look at:

Salman, Fikri. 2012. Türk kumaş sanatı. Erzurum: Atatürk Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi.

Fenerci Mehmed. 1986. Osmanlı kıyafetleri: Fenerci Mehmed albümü = Ottoman costume book. İstanbul: Vehbi Koç Vakfı.

Hamilton, Alastair. 2001. Arab culture and Ottoman magnificence in Antwerp’s Golden Age. London: Arcadian Library.

Ottoman PC1Sevin, Nureddin. 1973. On üç asırlık Türk kıyâfet târihine bir bakış. [İstanbul]: Devlet Kitapları.

Yılmaz, Hale. 2013. Becoming Turkish nationalist reforms and cultural negotiations in early republican Turkey, 1923-1945. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.

As well as: http://www.midafternoonmap.com/2014/02/ottoman-hats.html

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