# بيروت القرن 19 أسود أبيض

- By: Félix Bonfils
- Date: between circa 1867 and circa 1899
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.04096. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still…
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%86_19_%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B6.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%86_19_%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B6.jpg/1920px-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%86_19_%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B6.jpg
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This image by the firm of Maison Bonfils depicts the city of Beirut, Lebanon, sometime in the last third of the 19th century. Maison Bonfils was the extraordinarily prolific venture of the French photographer Félix Bonfils (1831–85), his wife Marie-Lydie Cabanis Bonfils (1837–1918), and their son, Adrien Bonfils (1861–1928). The Bonfils moved to Beirut in 1867 and, over the next five decades, their firm produced one of the world's most important bodies of photographic work about the Middle East. Maison Bonfils was known for landscape photographs, panoramas, biblical scenes, and posed “ethnographic” portraits. The family’s marketing acumen and commercial sense helped make their photographs known around the world. “Panoramic” photographs employ a variety of techniques to create a wide angle of view. This “panoramic view” is comprised of four aerial photographs set together to give the viewer a broader image than would have been practical with a single photograph.