Name of Object:

The Ottoman Bank

Location:

Istanbul, Türkiye

Holding Institution:

Istanbul University, Nadir Eserler Kütüphanesi (Rare Books Library)

 About Ministry of Culture and Tourism (General Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Museums), Istanbul

Date of Object:

1856

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Photograph

Provenance:

Istanbul

Description:

One of the world's largest photo archives, Abdülhamid II's photo archives – knows as the Yildiz Albums – contain about 37 thousand pictures from that period of the Ottoman Empire. The photo archives contain images of cities, buildings which were built by sultan, schools, students, soldiers, mosques, ports, government departments, shipyards, railways, bridges, bazaars, machines, locomotives and factories. The Ottoman Bank was founded in 1856 in the Galata business section of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, as a joint venture between British interests, the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas of France, and the Ottoman government. Tanzimat era's principal renovations in the financial field were the reestablishment of the currency and the foundation of the Ottoman Bank.

Type of Object

Photograph

Citation of this web page:

"The Ottoman Bank" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tr;115;en

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MWNF Working Number: TR2 111