ARCHIVE GUIDE
Collections
Choose a place, explore an era or look through a photographer’s lens.01 / ARCHIVES
Places and albums
Start with the principal archive collections.
Istanbul Archive
Streets, waterfronts and everyday life
Türkiye
City scenes and daily life in Anatolia
The Abdülhamid II Era
Cities, buildings, and daily life across the empire
Syria’s Historical Atlas
Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra, and city life
Iraq’s Historical Atlas
Baghdad, Mosul, Mesopotamia, and the Tigris banks
Palestine’s Historical Atlas
Jerusalem, Jaffa, Gaza and other cities
The Historical Atlas of the Hejaz
Mecca, Medina, and the pilgrimage routes
Istanbul’s Memory: Districts, Buildings, and Daily Life
Historical photographs tracing Istanbul’s changing urban fabric, from districts and daily life to schools and waterfronts.
Historical Visual Selections from the Islamic World
Historical photographs of cities, architecture, and daily life from the Balkans, North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and South Asia.
Islamic Arts: Miniature, Calligraphy, and Ornament
Curatorially reviewed miniatures, calligraphic works, paintings, architectural drawings, illuminations, and manuscript pages.
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Cities
The visual memory of cities
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Istanbul neighbourhoods
Neighbourhoods and districts
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Buildings and places
Architecture and public life
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Photographers
Behind the lens
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Image types
Photographic techniques
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Periods
Selections through time
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Thematic routes
Suggested paths of discovery
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Transport history
Networks connecting cities
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Nature and landscape
A visual record of changing landscapes
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Social life
Everyday life and shared memory
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