Color-tinted photographic postcard of Damascus, Syria (then Ottoman Turkey for postal purposes), showing the East Gate (Bab Sharqi / La porte de l'Est) with its distinctive stone arch and minaret tower. Street scene below features donkey-mounted merchants and passersby in traditional dress. A shop sign for "G.G. Nassau & Co. / Oriental Furniture" is visible at right. Published by André Terzis & Fils, Beyrouth – Jerusalem, one of the leading Levantine postcard publishers active c.1900–1920. Posted from Montana, USA on December 19, 1912, with a US 1¢ green George Washington stamp (Scott 405). Message from "Roland" to Miss Fannie L. Patten of Cambridge, Massachusetts, wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.