View of Pera at around the turn of the century

The shot, a tinted postcard, shows a Western facade of buildings still very much in evidence today, despite the loss of the bulk of the Levantine community over the years.

The entrance to the Russian embassy on the right, with the studio of the famous photographers Sebah and Joallier’s next to it and in the distance the old basilica of Sant’ Antonio, demolished in 1913, juts out.

A modern view of same street.