HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONS
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.Inside this collection
Cities, places and album subjects
Istanbul: General Views and Institutions473 images ↗Beyazıt and Historic Bazaars47 images ↗Eminönü and Sirkeci58 images ↗People and Their Stories40 images ↗Sultanahmet and Topkapı Palace54 images ↗Aksaray, Topkapı and Yedikule28 images ↗Golden Horn and Eyüp29 images ↗Beyoğlu and Taksim48 images ↗Fatih and Saraçhane36 images ↗Galata and Karaköy69 images ↗Şişli and Harbiye37 images ↗Beşiktaş and Dolmabahçe37 images ↗Üsküdar and Beylerbeyi106 images ↗Scenes with Unconfirmed Locations17 images ↗Bosphorus Shores33 images ↗Ortaköy and Yıldız15 images ↗Bakırköy and Zeytinburnu18 images ↗Süleymaniye and Unkapanı19 images ↗Kadıköy and Haydarpaşa42 images ↗Tophane, Fındıklı and Kabataş11 images ↗Balat and Edirnekapı8 images ↗Princes’ Islands4 images ↗
Catalogue date · 1894The Ottoman Printing House after the earthquake of 10 July 1894
41.0064, 28.9759
Catalogue date · 1894Kuyumcular Street in the Grand Bazaar after the earthquake of 10 July 1894
41.0106, 28.9679
Catalogue date · 1894Collapsed section of the Grand Bazaar after the earthquake of 10 July 1894
41.0106, 28.9679
Catalogue date · 1894A small inn damaged in the earthquake of 10 July 1894
41.0064, 28.9759
Date unknownFlooded Istanbul street with a Şişli–Beyazıt shared taxi
41.0064, 28.9759
1950–1959Flooded bus outside Pertevniyal Valide Sultan Mosque in Aksaray in the 1950s
41.0100, 28.9531
1950–1959Flooded roads between Karaköy and Tophane in the 1950s
41.0273, 28.9808
Date unknownSultanahmet and its surroundings after an early twentieth-century fire
41.0041, 28.9769
Catalogue date · 1908Istanbul after the 1908 fire
41.0064, 28.9759
Date unknownÇemberlitaş
41.0085, 28.9711
Date unknownBeşiktaş
41.0428, 29.0075
Date unknownFrom Tophane toward Dolmabahçe
41.0273, 28.9808
Date unknownFrom Tophane toward Karaköy
41.0273, 28.9808
Date unknownOutside Yeni Mosque
41.0169, 28.9721
Date unknownKaraköy
41.0229, 28.9740
Date unknownEyüp
41.0478, 28.9327
Catalogue date · 1931Fire damage in Küçük Langa, Aksaray, 22 September 1931
41.0083, 28.9503
Date unknownKumkapı, Yenikapı and the Aksaray road junction toward Şehzadebaşı
41.0083, 28.9503
Date unknownZeytinburnu, Kocamustafapaşa, Topkapı and Fatih
41.0064, 28.9759
Date unknownIstanbul's former shantytown housing
41.0064, 28.9759
Date unknownStreets and houses of an Istanbul shantytown
41.0064, 28.9759
Date unknownIstanbul's former shantytown housing
41.0064, 28.9759
Date unknownPeople passing time outside a coffeehouse on an Istanbul street
41.0064, 28.9759
Date unknownA street in old Istanbul
41.0064, 28.9759