PhotographAA-0624

Assyrian orphanage and school in Beirut

Place: Beirut · today Lebanon
Date: 1930s

Photograph of a three-storey building with balconies, children at the windows and people standing in the unpaved street, captioned as the orphanage and school at Beirut run by the Assyrian National School Association of America.

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Assyrian National School Association of America, Memorial Dinner programme (1937), via Internet Archive

Assyrian National School Association of America, Inc.

Assyrian orphanage and school in Beirut

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