Two books: Beirut 1840 – 1918

Description

LebanonPostcard.com presents two beautiful books with box, 28×24 cms, Beirut 1840 – 1918 – A Visual and Descriptive Portrait – Volume I: Text and Illustrations, 376 pages – Volume II: Photographs and Images, 272 pages – Badr El-Hage and Samir Moubarak (The books contain several extra wide panorama posters).

This work is a history of photography in Beirut from the earliest known photographers who visited the city in the 1840s until the end of the First World War. The work is divided into two volumes. The first consists of six illustrated chapters covering: 1- Early Photographers. 2- The Second Decade: the 1850s. 3- The Golden Age of the 1860s. 4- The Dawn of Syrian Photography. 5- Resident Foreign and Local Photographers. 6- Professional and Amateur Photographers from 1880 to 1918.

This volume also has a historical section, consisting of eleven chapters that describe many major political and social events such as sectarian conflicts, changes in political thought, bombardments of the city, famine, Turkish oppression as well as economic developments, influx of pilgrims, social life, etc. and a detailed topographical description of the harbour and its enlargement, the old city, its walls, newly built districts outside the city walls, khans, hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, public baths, urban developments, a new water supply system, the railway line to Damascus, burgeoning educational institutions, the looting of antiquities, the quarantine system and many other aspects.

This volume is a survey of selected photographs by different foreign and local photographers taken between 1840 and 1918. The photographic sections have been divided into the following subjects: the harbour, the Old Town, al-Burj Square, the coast, architectural views, street scenes, interiors, professions, political occasions, personalities, landscape views of different quarters, the Pine Forest and the famine during the First World War.

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