Photograph of Polili Hasan Dayı, İsmail Rayit and Abdıraman Aşık Hüsein no. 046

Copy of an old photograph, a street photograph taken in 1942. It shows three men. The one sitting in the middle is a gypsy (gurbet or roman), as is also the person standing on the right side. The third person, on the left, is Polili Hasan Dayı, and is wearing British army style short khaki pants and stockings, also a white short-sleeved shirt and modern laced shoes. The sitting man is İsmail Rayit. He wears a work shirt (işbir gömlek), dark-coloured (black) baggy trousers (şalvar or vráka) and Frankish knee boots. The man to the right is Abdıraman Aşık Hüsein, born in 1912 (information taken in 1997). He wears a work shirt (işbir gömlek), a cloth belt (kuşak/guşak) and trousers. He was married eleven times, the first time at the age of 18. Source of information: Hüseyin Baritogdo, 1997.