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Title: Views of Algeria
Date (inclusive): 1897
Number: 93.R.91
Physical Description:
1 album(s)
(39 photographic prints)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: This album of 39 photographs was
assembled by an unidentified French couple who toured northern Algeria in 1897.
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Language: Collection material is in French
Biographical / Historical Note
The album was assembled by an unidentified French couple (known only as "Charles et moi"),
who toured northern Algeria in 1897.
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Views of Algeria, 1897, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no.
93.R.91
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa93r91
Acquired in 1993.
Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant
funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).
Scope and Content of Collection
The album of 39 albumen photographs chronicles a French couple's tour through northern
Algeria on horseback in May and June of 1897. Among the locations documented are
Constantine, Touggourt, Fort National, Kabylia, and Port de Bougie (Bejaïa). Roman ruins at
Timgad (Thamugadi), including the arch, the theater, and the forum are also represented.
There are views of natural landscapes, including the Rummel and Tilatou rivers, a few of
which include images of one or both of the tourists. A few photographs depict Algerians in
native dress.
The photograph captions are written in a single hand, as is some ecstatic commentary on the
pages containing no image.
The album has green morocco leather binding with decorative gold stamping and initial "P"
in center of front cover. The slipcase is covered with black and orange marbled paper.
Captions are written in French on the mounts below the images; these have been used as
titles for the photographs.
The photographs remain in their original order.
Forums, Roman -- Algeria
Indigenous peoples -- Algeria
Visitors, foreign -- Algeria
Thamugadi (Extinct city)
Algeria -- Description and travel
Bejaïa (Algeria)
Constantine (Algeria)
Kabylia (Algeria)
Photograph albums -- Algeria -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Algeria -- 19th century