Ten intimate black-and-white photographs of Damascus — then the capital of the newly independent Syrian Republic — spill from their worn paper envelope stamped "Photo-Sport, Souk Arwam, Beirut": the Merjeh Square with its soaring column and vintage automobiles, the Straight Street (Via Recta of Biblical fame, where Paul recovered his sight), the ornate mihrab and minbar of the Umayyad Mosque glowing with geometric tilework, the domed skyline punctuated by minarets, the Barada River with the Tekieh and Solimanieh mosques mirrored in its waters, the Orient Palace Hotel, Baghdad Avenue, and more — a complete tourist document of a city that was one of the oldest continuously inhabited on Earth, captured in the final years of French Mandate Syria or the earliest years of Syrian independence (c.1940s). Published by Photo-Sport of Souk Arwam, Beirut — a well-known Levantine photography studio and souvenir publisher active from the 1930s through the 1960s — the set includes its original printed checklist card identifying all ten subjects. The photographs are real silver-gelatin prints on postcard-back stock, giving them exceptional tonal richness and archival permanence rare in tourist ephemera of this era.