File:Galata Tower.jpg

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Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00055

Title: Galata Tower

Photographer: Pascal Sébah (1823–1886, Ottoman Empire, active 1857–1886)

Building date: 1348

Building style: Romanesque (Genoese)

Photograph date: ca. 1875–1886 (Note: The previous conical roof of Galata Tower was destroyed by a storm in 1875, and the photographer Pascal Sébah died in 1886. The current conical roof of Galata Tower was built during the restoration works between 1965 and 1967.)

Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Materials: albumen print

Image: 13.75 x 10.5 in.; 34.925 x 26.67 cm

Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning

Persistent URI: Cornell University Library

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Albumen print of the Galata Tower, taken by Pascal Sébah some time between 1875 and 1886

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