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Scope and Content of Collection
Biographical/Historical Note
Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Views and Peoples of Algeria
Creator: Prod'hom, Jean
Identifier/Call Number: 2002.R.9
Physical Description: 1 album(s)(82 photographs in 1 album)
Date (inclusive): 1867-1868, undated
Abstract: The album contains 82 photographs of Algeria and includes landscapes and portraits.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in English and French.
Arrangement
Arranged in a single series: Series I. Views and Peoples of Algeria.
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 2002.
Preferred Citation
Views and peoples of Algeria album, 1867-1868, undated, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2002.R.9
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002r9
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). Guynn updated the finding aid in 2021.
Scope and Content of Collection
The album of 82 albumen prints on 75 pages includes cityscapes and urban views, landscapes, formal and informal portraits,
and local vegetation. Several photographs are attributed to Jean Prod'hom; the other photographers are unidentifed.
The album is bound in black morocco. The title stamped on the front cover in Arabic reads: A. B. A., 1867. The inside front
cover is stamped: R. Ackermann, London, indicating it was likely bound and sold by Rudolph Ackermann, Junior (-1906), the
London publisher, print seller, stationer, and manufacturer of watercolor paints and other art supplies.
The pages are numbered in pencil on the recto side only, and 30 photographs are captioned in pencil in English or French;
some are dated 1867 or 1868; these captions have been used as the photograph titles; the remainder of the titles were devised
by the cataloger.
Biographical/Historical Note
The compiler of the album is unidentified. Several photographs are attributed to Jean Prod'hom, who ran a studio in Bône,
Algeria, from the 1860s through the 1890s.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Algeria -- Description and travel
Plants -- Algeria
Studio portraits -- Algeria -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Algeria -- 19th century
Indigenous peoples -- Algeria
Islamic architecture -- Algeria
Mosques -- Algeria
Clothing and dress -- Algeria