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    Rare Photos Of Lebanon In The 1900s-1920s

    By Christie K.September 20, 2020Updated:September 6, 2021
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    A glimpse into Lebanon at the times of our grand-grand parents who lived in the first two decades of the 20th century.

    A hundred and plus years later, we open a small window to that era and bring their memories to mind.

    Inauguration of Beirut Industrial School, 1900s

    Ottoman Imperial Archives

    Somewhere in Aley, early 1900s

    Ottoman Imperial Archives

    Beautiful Zahle, The Bride of Bekaa, 1914

    Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

    Beirut Food Souks, 1910s

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    Beirut Port 1910s

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    Harissa, Our Lady of Lebanon, 1923

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    Bedouin community in Baalbek, 1913

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    Beirut (circa believed to be early 19th century)

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    Mount-Lebanon 1910s, Silk-worms breakfast time!

    Underwood & Underwood 

    At Beirut Port 1920s

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    Batroun, a charity event, 1916

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    Qahwet El-Ezez, Beirut 1900

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    College Sacre Coeur, Beirut 1925

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    Beirut Kaak Street Vendor, 1900

    Credit: Matson Collection

    Lebanese Migrants 1910s – 1920s

    My family fresh off the boat from Lebanon (Early 1900s) from r/OldSchoolCool

    According to the Lebanese descent who posted this on Reddit, this family photo was taken before his grandmother was born in 1928.

    Quartier Medawar, Beirut

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    Silk Production Atelier in Mount Lebanon, 1910s

     Underwood & Underwood – c1914 May 7.

    Nahr El-Kalb, 1920s

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    Lebnen El-Akhdar…

    Beirut sea view from AUB, 1900

    Library of Congress

    Beirut beautiful houses, 1900s

    Matson Collection, HDL Library of Congress

    At the Port of Beirut in 1909

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    Jounieh Bay, 1920s

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    First Bridge over Nahr El-Kalb, 1900s

    Library of Congress

    Beirut street scene, 1910-1920

    Edith Matson Photograph Collection 1910s-1920s

    Maronite villagers building a church in Mount-Lebanon, 1920s

    Mideast Image

    This is how public haircuts took place in Beirut in 1920

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    When horses were common transportation in Lebanon… Maameltein road, 1920

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    And also horse carriages… heading to Baabda, 1923

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