THE MOORE COLLECTION

Franklin T Moore, who became Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Syrian Protestant College (later named AUB) in 1891, began photographing the AUB campus in 1892. He documented the upper campus under construction: Dodge Hall before its extension, the Lee Observatory overlooking the sea, and Assembly Hall before Post Hall was built in 1897. His camera captured the vast size of the new campus, the wild and empty landscape of Ras Beirut, Bliss Street unpaved, and undeveloped mountains northeast of the modest city of Beirut.

The collection of 120 remarkable black and white images was reproduced from the original glass photographic plates found by accident in an attic on campus. Published in 2007, the Moore Collection also includes information on the photographer, his photographic techniques, and the process of restoring the photographic plates.

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