The Justice Gazette was first published in 1909 in Istanbul to document various legal news and statistics (things like judicial inspector reports, scholarly articles, legal opinions, and translations of foreign laws). These particular graphs are from the magazine’s relaunch in Ankara during the 1920s and early 30s; following the dissolution of the long-standing Ottoman Empire in 1922, but while the administrative institutions of the new Turkish Republic were still quite young. They also function as something of an index fossil for the last gasp of Arabic script in official Turkish use; in 1928, Turkish alphabet reform led to it being replaced by the Latin alphabet (the last issue of the publication that used Arabic script was Issue 76).
These are mesmerizing. Amazing find!
Stunning. I saw them quoted in @kasurian and had to look for myself.
I cannot believe how beautiful those Ottoman pieces are. Nothing more to say. Agog, gobsmacked, giddy.
wow!! thank you for sharing
ah, thanks for the shout! there are some here even I haven’t seen
that sign archive is a treasure! thank you for sharing it!
What a blessing to my eyes, thank you I really needed this post 🫶