Launch of the Belkis
| Description: | A young woman in an elegant dress, gloves and a hat, cuts a cord releasing a bottle to the bow of the ship. |
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| 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. |
| Relations: | o:siba.3191 o:siba.3204 |
| Date: | 1934-02-27 |
| Location: | Istanbul, Haliç |
| Country: | Turkey |
| Type: | Photographic negative |
| Creator: | Görgüç, Namık and Giz, Selahattin , (Press Photographer) |
| Technique: | Not specified |
| Keywords: | 470 Business and Industrial Organization > 472 Individual Enterprise 500 Water, Air, and Space Transportation > 501 Boats |
| Bibliography: | Hususî teşebbüslerle yapılan ilk Türk gemisi. Cumhuriyet, 28 February 1937, 5. |
| Copyright: | Yapı Kredi tarih arşivi, Istanbul |
| Archive: | Yapı Kredi tarih arşivi, Istanbul, Inv. No.: 5/0613A |
| License: | This picture is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
| Editor: | Joël László |
| Permalink: | https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:siba.3203 |