Launch of the Belkis
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Description
overview| Object: | Launch of the Belkis |
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| Description: | A young woman in an elegant dress, gloves and a hat, cuts a cord releasing a bottle to the bow of the ship. |
| Comment: | The photograph was taken in the context of an article printed in Cumhuriyet with the title, ‘First Turkish ship made on special initiative’. The young woman cutting the cord is Miss Beliks, daughter of the lawyer Etemin Belkis, who financed the vessel’s construction. In Cumhuriyet, the ship was hailed as the first of its kind constructed on Turkish initiative. |
| Series: | https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:siba.3191 https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:siba.3204 |
| Date: | 1934-02-27 |
| Location: | Istanbul, Haliç |
| Country: | Turkey (contemporary) |
| Turkey (historical) |
| Type: | Photographic negative |
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| Creator: | Görgüç, Namık or Giz, Selahattin |
| Keywords: | 470 Business and Industrial Organization > 472 Individual Enterprise 500 Water, Air, and Space Transportation > 501 Boats |
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| Bibliography: | Hususî teşebbüslerle yapılan ilk Türk gemisi. Cumhuriyet, 28 February 1937, 5. |
| Copyright: | Yapı Kredi bank |
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| Archive: | Yapı Kredi tarih arşivi, Istanbul (Collection Selahattin Giz), Inv. No.: 5/0613A |
| Editor: | Joël László |
| Permalink: | https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:siba.3203 |
