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Portier (Claude Joseph) Algérie
2017.R.17
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Claude-Joseph Portier Algérie photograph album
Creator:
Portier, C. (Claude-Joseph), 1841-1910
Identifier/Call Number: 2017.R.17
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date: circa 1867
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Abstract: An album of 29 photographs of Algiers and environs taken by Claude-Joseph Portier circa 1867.
Language of Material: Collection material is in French.
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Claude-Joseph Portier Algérie Photograph Album, circa 1867, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2017.R.17.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2017r17
The archive is arranged in a single series: Series I. Claude-Joseph Portier Algérie Photograph Album, circa 1867.
The French-born photographer Claude-Joseph Portier (24 May 1841-9 May 1910) operated a photography studio in Algiers from
the 1860s until some time after 1880 when his name disappears from the city directories.
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Digitized by the repository in 2018. The images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2017r17
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired in 2017.
The finding aid was written by Beth Ann Guynn in 2018.
Scope and Content of Collection
The album of 29 albumen photographs of Algiers and environs contains seventeen mounts bearing single photographs, followed
by three mounts each bearing four carte-de-visite-sized photographs. The album opens with a view of Algiers as seen from across
its bay. It is followed by views of the streets and mosques of the city. The last three of the single-image mounts contain
an image of a robed man sitting under a tree alongside a country road; and two views of the Chiffa gorges, the second of which
shows Portier's coach from the rear, bearing the address of his first studio at 7, rue Napéolon. The carte-de-visite-sized
photographs at the end of the album are studio portraits of individuals identified as Algerian "types," such as "Maure d'Algérie"
and "Juive," rather than by the sitters' names.
The album is quarter-bound in red morocco and red cloth with the title gilt-stamped on the front cover. Seventeen mounts bear
the photographer's imprint below the lower right corner of the image: C. Portier, Phot. Fifteen of these mounts have French
captions printed below the images. Three mounts, each containing four carte-de-visite-sized photographs, have printed captions
beneath each image on the mount. The captions have been used as titles for the individual images. Consequently, some titles
may include language now considered to be racist or biased.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs, Original
Studio portraits -- Algeria -- 19th century
Photograph albums -- Algeria -- 19th century
Cartes-de-visite -- Algeria -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Algeria -- 19th century
Algiers (Algeria) -- Description and travel
Streets -- Algeria -- Algiers
Mosques -- Algeria -- Algiers
Indigenous peoples -- Algeria -- Portraits
Gorges -- Algeria -- Algiers