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Title: Souvenir d'Algérie
Date (inclusive): 1889
Number: 2008.R.15
Physical Description:
2.33 Linear Feet
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: Photographs taken by an amateur
photographer of sights and everyday life in late-nineteenth century Algiers are presented in
two portfolios each titled Souvenir d'Algérie.
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Language: Collection material is in French
The photographs were taken by an unidentified amateur photographer, likely a French
colonial, during an extensive stay in Algeria in the late-nineteenth century.
Open for use by qualified researchers.
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Souvenir d'Algérie, 1889, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no.
2008.R.15"
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2008r15
In 2013 the collection was processed by Lilly Tsukahira and the finding aid was written by
Beth Ann Guynn.
Scope and Content of Collection
The 78 albumen photographs in these two portfolios, taken by an unidentified amateur
photographer in 1889, comprise typical tourist views as well as images of a more quotidian
nature, indicating that they are the personal documentation of the maker's extended stay as
a French colonial in Algeria. Included are scenes of city workers and the marketplace; views
of women tending graves in a cemetery and carrying bundles in the street; images of a
coachman in Arab-style livery driving a horse and buggy and riding a trotting horse; views
of a man in Western dress feeding chickens and tending a garden; and photographs of local
flora (two captions record the time of year and the height of the plants) and floral
arrangements or baskets of plants. Several photographs labeled "études" or "études
d'instantané" depict dogs and horses in motion, suggesting the artistic or scientific
interests of the photographer.
The photographs are housed in two red cloth tie portfolios with gilt-stamped titles. They
are mounted on 55 heavy card stock with letterpress French captions and irregular
enumeration (ranging from 123 to 914; three photographs are unnumbered). Most mounts contain
two photographs.
Arranged by negative numbers as they appear on the mounts, with the number for the upper
image coming first (ie. in some cases the higher number is assigned to the upper photograph
on the mount).
Algeria -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Algeria -- Description and travel
Photographs, Original
Albumen prints -- Algeria -- 19th century