Photograph album of the Aerial Photography Section of the French Army of the Levant

Photograph album of the Aerial Photography Section of the French Army of the Levant still image slide still image Gelatin silver prints-1900-1920. Aerial photographs. Photograph albums. Snapshots. Cityscapes. Group portraits. sy 1920 monographic approximately 1920. fre 53 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints on 7 sheets ; 26.5 x 34 cm Collection. The album collects photographs related to the Aerial Photography Section of the French Army of the Levant based in Rue Gouraud, in Gemmayzeh, Beirut. Images depict the Section's office and group portraits snapshots. There are street scenes in Beirut and cityscapes with architectures in Damascus as well as antiquities in Baalbeck. In addition, there are aerial views of Syria and Lebanon. Copyright Undetermined Title and date devised by Library staff. Photographs (ranging from 5 x 5.5 cm to 11 x 16 cm) are pasted into the album pages and seldomly captioned with pencil below the print, on the mount. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0025 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23113960 BIB-ID: 2450450 France. Armée. Armies Officers Antiquities Lebanon Syria History French occupation, 1918-1946 Baʻlabakk (Lebanon) Beirut (Lebanon) Damascus (Syria) rda QAFCL 160731 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.111 2016/3/24) eng