{"id":3017,"date":"2019-08-24T10:55:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2019-08-19T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:53:09","slug":"over-6000-photographs-from-the-ottoman-era-now-available-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/over-6000-photographs-from-the-ottoman-era-now-available-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre de Gigord collection of photographs of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, 1853-1930"},"content":{"rendered":"
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French businessman Pierre de Gigord compiled an important collection of Ottoman-Era photographs in the eighties while traveling in Turkey. This collection of more than 6,000 photographs taken by over 165 photographers documents the late years of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. The bulk of the collection is urban sites in Constantinople (Istanbul), the Balkans, Bursa and Smyrna (Izmir) as well as sites in Greece, Egypt, Palestine, India and China. In addition to photographs, the collection includes a few pamphlets and offprints about photography in the Ottoman Empire and a small collection of photographic ephemera. Pierre de Gigord collection of photographs<\/a> now housed in the Getty Research Institute<\/a> was recently digitized and made openly available to the public. The digitization project prioritized images from the late nineteenth and early twentieth <\/span>century (up to World War I).<\/span><\/div>\n
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A detailed finding aid<\/a> available on the Getty Library website gives access to a descriptive summary, biographical and historical notes, a lengthy description of the scope and content of the collection as well as to a container list.<\/div>\n
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The collection is arranged in 10 series:<\/p>\n