Orchards thriving in the desert at Baalbek, the result of effective irrigation. Note the ...

Accession Number G02158
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Place made Ottoman Empire: Lebanon
Date made March 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Orchards thriving in the desert at Baalbek, the result of effective irrigation. Note the scarecrow (centre) next to the stone wall. One of a series of photographs taken under the direction of Captain C E W Bean of the Australian Historical Mission, during the months of February and March, 1919.

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