Colourful description of Istanbul's stunning cosmopolitanism at the turn of the century, documenting speakers of Turkish, Greek, Armenian, Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, Ladino, Lezgin, Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Yiddish, Hindi, Swahili, Bilen, Nuer, etc 
So close to, but not quite at the point of just saying..."Maybe race just...isn't a thing...?" Quite striking for the time though. (Source: Huxley Memorial Lecture from anthropologist Felix V. Luschan, 1911)
Luschan goes on to give a racist ethnography and phrenology of the Empire, but managed to capture some striking portraits of Ottoman citizens.
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