Description

Each magazine is composed of a title page with index and seven illustrated pages with titles in French and Ottoman and contains views of cities and battles in Europe (Bordeaux, Belfort, Berlin, Metz, Brussels, Paris, Antwerp,  Alsace, …), women working for the military industry, events represented through a caricature of a bear, Zeppelin and warfare conducted with these new aircrafts , boats, cannons, Serbian artillery, portraits of European leaders, German generals destroyed bridge on the Drina (1914) but also Ottoman battles, such as the Battle of Kizil-tepe (1877) and Karahassan (1877), several images from the Franco-Prussian War (1870), Japanese admiral Kuroi Teijirō etc.

The magazines are not dated, but the latest images represent the events from the beginning of World War I, with one of the latest being the destroyed Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad from late 1914.

These 10 issues are probably all published in 1914 by Afiet Press, run by editor S. Ferid. In the next years magazines under the same title or its variations were issued by different publishers and editors.

10 issues, same numbers as ours, are preserved at the Stanford University and Bavarian State Library. Duke University Libraries houses issues 5-7.

References: OCLC 644508227, 269230325.