Photographs of the Telegraph Tower, Marjeh Square, Damascus

Item

Description
Two photographs of the Telegraph Tower in Marjeh - or Shouhada (Matryrs') - Square in Damascus. One photograph is a close-up of the tower, erected in the early 1900s to celebrate the completion of the telegraph line between Damascus and Hajj sites in the Ottoman Empire, while the other one shows a more general view of the square.
Subject
Architecture
Syria
Spatial Coverage
Damascus
Identifier
MS 215 Add. 1
Format
Print
Resource class
Still Image