|
The photographs of the Ottoman photographers preserve the memory of the Ottoman Empire during the last half of the nineteenth century in pictures of coffee houses, the Friday procession to prayer, dervishes, tradesmen, street vendors, the efes (popular and chivalrous bandits of the Aegean region), and the mosaic of races who lived in the Ottoman territories - Montenegrans, Georgians, Egyptians, Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Albanians, Jews, Serbs, Arabs, Circassians and Chaldeans. They also recorded the city walls, mosques, fountains, Hippodrome, |
