Hand-colored sample print with view towards the Boğaziçi Üniversitesi campus (formerly part of Robert College), Istanbul, 1925 or 1935

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29.051671028137207, Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Robert College, Constantinople, 1925, 8 x 10 neg. of panorama, 8 x 10 good frmt to copy, 2092 1/2, A. Bartlett in Turkey, year 1935, 41.08295803061035, View towards the Boğaziçi Üniversitesi campus (formerly part of Robert College), and the towers of the Rumeli Hisari (fortress) beyond, facing south across the Bosphorus. This is a sample print, colored by Bartlett to instruct the colorist., Robert College is a school located on a sixty-five acre wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus. It was founded in 1863 by Americans, Christopher Rhinelander Robert and Cyrus Hamlin. In 1972 the higher education division was transferred to the Turkish government and has continued as Boğaziçi University, Turkey's leading public university., Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.