ICFA.NA.0223, Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks.

Land Walls looking southwest from Tekfur Sarayı, May 1937.

Land Walls demarcated the city visually. The movement of people along and through the walls, against a monumental background of towers disappearing in the horizon, was among Artamonoff’s preferred snapshots.