Orhan Koloğlu (1929-2020) born in Konya, a well-known intellectual, journalist, historian of culture and the press in North Africa and the Middle East; he served as Director General of Press and Publications in Türkiye, diplomatic cultural attaché in various countries; he taught in the history and communications departments of different universities in Türkiye and was associate professor at Tripoli University, Libya. Dr. Koloğlu was the son of Sadullah Koloğlu, the Libyan-born bureaucrat and provincial governor of Turkish origin who served as the Prime Minister of Libya during 1949-52. Some of the collection’s remarkable contents are: glass plate negatives of openings of stations on the Hamidiye Hejaz Railway built by the Ottoman State at the beginning of the 20th century; more recent photographs of cities, architectural monuments, and social life in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, India, Iran, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Pakistan, Spain, Syria, U.A.E., and immigrant workers in Germany, and travel notes taken in different countries.