Finding Aid for Views of Algeria, 1897
Beth Guynn
Descriptive Summary
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.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Views of Algeria, 1897, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no.
93.R.91
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa93r91
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1993.
Processing History
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.
Arrangement
The photographs remain in their original order.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Topics
Forums, Roman -- Algeria
Indigenous peoples -- Algeria
Visitors, foreign -- Algeria
Subjects - Places
Thamugadi (Extinct city)
Algeria -- Description and travel
Bejaïa (Algeria)
Constantine (Algeria)
Kabylia (Algeria)
Genres and Forms of Material
Photograph albums -- Algeria -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Algeria -- 19th century
page flyleaf
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Handwritten text
Scope and Content Note
Algérie 1897 Mai a Juin. Charles et moi-
Text only, no image.
page 1
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Constantine
Scope and Content Note
View of city edge along gorges.
page 2
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Constantine
Scope and Content Note
View of gorges with city above.
page 3
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Constantine
Scope and Content Note
View of gorges with city above.
page 4
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Gorges du Rummel
page 5
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Gorges du Rummel
page 6
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Handwritten text
Scope and Content Note
Excursion à Timgaud pendant au Sejour à Batna.
Text only, no image.
page 7
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Vers Timgaud
Scope and Content Note
Arch.
page 8
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Vers Timgaud
Scope and Content Note
Indigenous travelers on camels and mules.
page 12
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Handwritten text
Scope and Content Note
Excursion faite de Batna, à la mocetaque du Touggourt où subsiitect quelques beaux
cédres. - Ver pierres, ver pierres, ver pierres & encor ver pierres
Text only, no image.
page 13
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Vers de Touggourt
Scope and Content Note
Landscape.
page 14
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Halte pour dejeuner
Scope and Content Note
Landscape.
page 15
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Ruisseau au pied du Touggourt
page 16
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Quelques cédres
page 17
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Avant de grisupes parccui les cédres
page 18
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Squeleth j'uis eidze vépocis thé. Aperçu un oiseau bleau
page 19
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Handwritten text
Scope and Content Note
Excursion aux gorges de Jilatou, au nord de l'oasis o'El kantara - Enchanteument -
Text only, no image.
page 20
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[View of Gorges]
page 21
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En montant aux gorges de Jilatou aurès, au nord o'El Kantara
page 23
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Dans le gorges de Jilatou
page 24
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À la sorite ver gorges
page 25
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Handwritten text
Scope and Content Note
Excursion de trois jours en Kabylie - Forét d'azay ga - Jigi - Ouyou - Fort National
Michelet - col de Jir ourda - descente dans ; a placine par sirocco furieux.
Text only, no image.
page 26
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Grande Kabylie
page 27
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Grande Kabylie
page 28
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En montant à Fort National
page 29
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Route de montagne Kabylie
page 30
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Kabyles le reudacch au marché
page 31
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Meur route. Effet de maties
page 32
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Village kabyle pris de Fort National
page 33
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Femmes Kabyles environs de Fort National
page 34
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Village Kabyle
page 35
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Horizon de montagnes Kabylie
page 36
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Handwritten text
Scope and Content Note
Sejour à Bougie - promenade en barque direction de l'ouest, au peid de rochers d'un
rouge gienab, et aus une mer d'une bleu prergeu voir.
Text only, no image.
page 37
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Port de Bougie
page 38
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Port de Bougie
page 39
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Promenade en mer allant au cap Carbou
