Art & Relics

28/05/2023

A guide to tourism during the time of French mandate in 1937 produced by the Society of Encouragement in Tourism (SET )
to promulgate a destination called Lebanon in publicity campaigns.

#1937

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07/04/2023

Al WATAN (Motherland) a Lebanese newspaper published in Beirut during the mandate period until independence 1930s 1940s.

The press is considered to be the Fourth Authority due to its influence on public opinion and in view of the cultural, economic, social, and political trends it represents.

The press, since its inception in 1858, has upheld and supported freedom in Lebanon all along the Ottoman rule, as well as under the French mandate: and the Independence

The Lebanese journalist authors, artists, and technicians have developed their competencies using up to forming a school of their own. They have founded newspapers in Lebanon and in emigration countries, promoting intellectual renewal everywhere. We are presenting here a century of the life of the press in Lebanon (1858-1958) We have classified the century into decades highlighting the significant stages of the evolution of journalism, in all aspects, types, authors, shapes, pictures: graphics, and advertisements. This display of newspapers, whether in relatively good shape or under restoration, chosen from the collection of the National Library, will meet the expectations of the reader.



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25/03/2023

A 1904 german map of BEIRUT which was an Ottoman city.
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
Beirut has settled over 5,000 years ago, and there is evidence that the surrounding area had already been inhabited for tens of thousands of years prior to this. Several prehistoric archaeological sites have been discovered within the urban area of Beirut, revealing flint tools from sequential periods dating from the Middle Palaeolithic and Upper Paleolithic through the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.



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22/03/2023

A 19th-century antique silver locket opens to reveal a space for storing a photograph or other small item such as a lock of hair. Lockets are usually given to loved ones on holidays such as Valentine's Day and occasions such as christenings, weddings, and funerals, most noticeably during the Victorian Age.



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20/03/2023

Antique 19th-century silver Chinese silver box with enameled flower.



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19/03/2023

art.relics David's star on an old silver bottle stopper
The Star of David is a recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism.[1] Its shape is a hexagram: the compound of two equilateral triangles.
A derivation of the seal of Solomon, which was used for decorative and mystical purposes by Muslims and Kabbalistic Jews, its adoption as a distinctive symbol for the Jewish people and their religion dates to 17th-century Prague. In the 19th century, the symbol began to be widely used among the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, ultimately coming to be used to represent Jewish identity or religious beliefs. It became representative of Zionism after it was chosen as the central symbol for a Jewish national flag at the First Zionist Congress in 1897



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18/03/2023

Old and beautifully made Jewish Yemeni filigree ring, high-grade silver with filigree and granulation work.
Filigree is the delicate manipulation of thin strips of metal that are woven and twisted to form incredible texture and detail. The process of making filigree by hand is methodical and time-consuming, starting with stretching metal into thin, threadlike strips.



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16/03/2023

A Gold 25 Shilling 1928 (KM-2841), First Austrian Republic (1918-1934).
he Schilling was established by the Schilling Act (Schillingrechnungsgesetz) of December 20, 1924 at a rate of 1 Schilling to 10,000 Austro-Hungarian Kronen and issued on 1 March 1925. The Schilling was abolished in the wake of the Anschluss (1938), when it was exchanged at a rate of 1 German Reichsmark to 1.5 Schilling.

In Austrian history, the First Republic encompasses the period following the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the end of World War I, up to World War II. Austria was a de-facto republic, as the constitution did not identify it directly as a republic, its official name was the Federal State of Austria. This period was marked by violent strife between the left and the right, as seen in the July Revolt of 1927. The Constitution of Austria was enacted in 1920 and amended in 1929. The First Republic ends with the Anschluss to N**i Germany in 1938, or, according to some accounts with the establishment of the Austro-fascist dictatorship in 1933/34 following the Austrian Civil War. (The constitution of the Austro-fascist state did not consider Austria a republic, but only a Bundesstaat, i.e. a federal state).



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11/03/2023

11/03/2023

Wars and religious conflict in the Emirate of Mount Lebanon during the nineteenth century between 1841-1873, as Mount Lebanon, witnessed a sectarian and ethnic conflict between its largest sect, the Druze sect, and the followers of the Maronite Christian Catholic sect, these two sects whose followers lived in Mount Lebanon and the rest of the Lebanese provinces side by side. For many centuries, the Maronites worked as farmers for the Druze feudal lords, especially in the central provinces of Lebanon that are inhabited by a Druze majority, namely the Chouf, Metn, and Keserwan since 1590.
A luxurious copy No. 13 of a rare book by the famous historian Youssef Ibrahim Yazbek, citing a historic document, which was gifted to the diplomat Jawad Boulos in 1939 (later the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lebanon).

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