{"id":2898,"date":"2018-11-20T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2018-11-20T13:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T18:16:54","slug":"adbul-hamid-ii-digital-collection-of-books-and-serials-gifted-to-the-library-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/adbul-hamid-ii-digital-collection-of-books-and-serials-gifted-to-the-library-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress’ Adbul Hamid II Digital Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the Library of Congress<\/a>‘ numerous digital collections, two collections include Ottoman photographic and textual materials from the\u00a0African and Middle East Division: the Abdul Hamid II collection and the Abdul Hamid Collection of books and serials gifted to the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n

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Made up of 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums from the late 19th century, the Abdul Hamid II collection<\/strong><\/a> illustrates the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Sultan Abdul-Hamid II, and\u00a0 the modernization of of the Ottoman Empire. Photographs were taken by well-known Ottoman commercial photographers, Turkish military photographers and the Photographic Unit of the Imperial School of Engineering. Abdul-Hamid (1842-1918) was an avid collector and promoter of photography. He presented a copy of the survey to the Library of Congress in 1893 or 1894 and gave a very similar collection to the British Museum (now housed in the British Library).<\/p>\n

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[Tuberculosis ward of the Hask\u00f6y Hospital for Women] \/ Abdullah Fr\u00e8res (Constantinople), between 1880 and 1883.<\/p><\/div>The Abdul Hamid Collection of books and serials gifted to the Library of Congress<\/a> <\/strong>contains over 300 original Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic works as well as translations from European languages of medical, historical, or legal, works. All the volumes are bound in red Morocco with gilt edges, and richly embossed with the following inscription in English, French and Ottoman:<\/div>\n

“Gift made by H.I. M. the Sultan Abdul-Hamid II to the national library of the United States of America through the Honorable A.S. Hewitt Member of the House of Representatives A.H. 1302-1884 A.D.<\/em>“.<\/div>\n
The collection was donatedto\u00a0the Library of Congress in 1884.
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Medhal-i f\u0131k\u0131h \/ Abd\u00fcssettar. I\u0307stanbul : Mahmud Bey Matbaas\u0131, 1299 [1882]<\/p><\/div>Digital contents are available for download in very high resolution, and free to use or reuse as they are in the public domain.<\/div>\n

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