Heinz Gaube Architectural Photographs Collection

The Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU) Libraries Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection is a unique series of over 3,100 black and white photographs and related information that documents the rich heritage of traditional Lebanese architecture. Over 285 villages, towns and cities across Lebanon are represented in the collection which was created by German Professor Heinz Gaube between 1970 and 1975 when he lived in Beirut and worked at the Oriental Institute of the German Oriental Society.

The Gaube collection is available for the public through Shared Shelf Commons (http://sscommons.org) under the title: “Notre Dame University-Louaize (Lebanon). Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architecture Photographs Collection” and licensed according to Creative Commons Licenses Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). Please note that 940 images from the Gaube collection have no documentation although it is known that these photos were taken in the northern part of Mount Lebanon district. The unidentified images are also available and searchable in Shared Shelf Commons and in the digital map as "Unknown". The NDU Libraries encourage anyone who can identify the location of these images to contact specialcollections@ndu.edu.lb

Digital Collection

"Notre Dame University-Louaize (Lebanon). Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architecture Photographs Collection”.