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Chaldean man with rifle and pipe, Constantinople

Place

Constantinople · today Türkiye

Date

1869

Studio portrait by Abdullah Frères of a man in a turban, sash and wide trousers, smoking a pipe and holding a long gun before a painted landscape backdrop. The albumen print is captioned "Constantinople. Chaldean." and comes from the album Constantinople, Smyrna, Beyrout, Ba'albec, Damascus (p. 13B, pl. 26).

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