Algeria Photograph Collection, 1933

Summary

Extent:

.1 linear feet (1 folder)

Language:

English.

Background

Scope and content:

55 black/white shapshots, with captions, of a tour in Algeria taken by two elderly English women, Mrs. Frank Payne and Mrs. William Spencer, Mar. 1933. Contains images of Sidi Akba, Timgad (Roman settlement ruins), Biskra, and Bou Saada. Includes street and desert scenes, markets, local inhabitants, residences, camel and horse riders, horse races, and dancers, as well as several of Mrs Payne and Spencer, their guide, and touring car.

Acquisition information:

Purchase, 2003.

Physical location:

Vault

Location of this collection:

UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

UC Santa Barbara Library

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US

Contact:

(805) 893-3062

special@library.ucsb.edu

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