Alexander Svoboda was one of the few photographers to document the archaeological sites of Turkey in the mid-nineteenth century. He published a selection of twenty photographs, including seven from the above group, in a small format in his book The Seven Churches of Asia in 1869. Although he is said to have produced a series of sixty-two additional photographs which were available commercially, few seem to have survived. His work was also used as the basis of illustrations in Le Tour du Monde, where he was recorded in 1864 as having been established in Smyrna by the mid-1850s.