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Attribution: Cornell University Library, with CC BY 2.0 license, original file:Galata_Tower.jpg , Wikipedia
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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