Final Analysis
Dec 05, 2017
2 minutes
‘This carefully regimented picture screams modernisation’
This is the tuberculosis ward at Hasköy Hospital for Women, Constantinople [now Istanbul], some time between 1880 and 1893, taken from an album presented by Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918) to the incomparable Library of Congress in the USA in 1893 or 1894. The albums are ornate and
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