
Pierre de Gigord Collection of Photographs of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, 1850-1958
6000 Ottoman era Photographs digitalised for study and Free Downloads
Interested in Ottoman Era ? In the 1980s the French collector Pierre de Gigord traveled to Turkey and collected thousands of Ottoman-era photographs in a variety of media and formats. The resulting Pierre de Gigord Collection is now housed in the Getty Research Institute, which recently digitized over 6,000 of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs, making them available to study and download for free online. From albumen prints to…