Photographer's note: The Kamondo Steps, (Las eskaleras de Kamondo), leading up from Bankalar Caddesi in the Galata district, were built by the Kamondos who was a Sephardic family of financiers and philanthropists. The family migrated from Italy to Istanbul, and the most famous member of the family was Count Abraham Kamondo, born in 1785.
Provenance:
Gift of Laurence and Ayșe Salzmann, 2018.
Relation:
Finding aid https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_RBML_PUSP.MS.COLL.1424
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