Claude-Joseph Portier Algérie Photograph Album, Series I.
circa 1867
Claude-Joseph Portier Algérie photograph album (digitized version)
Arrangement
In original order.
Scope and Contents
The album contains 29 albumen photographs of Algiers and environs.
box 1, page front endpapers
Front endpapers 2017.R.17-fe
box 1, page front free endpaper verso
Verso of free front endpaper 2017.R.17-fe_v
box 1, page 1st blank recto
Blank page 2017.R.17-bl1_r
box 1, page 1st blank verso
Blank page 2017.R.17-bl1_v
box 1, page 2 recto
Boulevard de la Républic 2017.R.17-2r
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Rue de la Marine 2017.R.17-3r
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Notre-Dame d'Afrique 2017.R.17-4r
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Mosquée d'Alger 2017.R.17-5r
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Mosquée Sidi-Abdheraman 2017.R.17-6r
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Mosquée à Alger 2017.R.17-7r
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Rue à Alger 2017.R.17-8r
Scope and Contents
View towards a building with an octagonal tower.
box 1, page 9 recto
Rue à Alger 2017.R.17-9r
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View looking up a street towards its steps.
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Rue à Alger 2017.R.17-10r
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View of a narrow passageway between buildings.
box 1, page 11 recto
Rue à Alger 2017.R.17-11r
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View of a hooded figure about to descend the stairs into a dark passageway.
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Jardin d'essai 2017.R.17-12r
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[View of an Empty Salon] 2017.R.17-13r
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[Man Sitting beneath a Tree at the Edge of a Road] 2017.R.17-15r
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Gorges de la Chiffa 2017.R.17-16r
Scope and Contents
General view across the gorges.
box 1, page 17 recto
Gorges de la Chiffa 2017.R.17-17r
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View of Portier's photo van on the bend of a road going through the gorges.
Algerian types 2017.R.17-18r
Scope and Contents
Each page contains 4 carte-de-visite-sized studio portraits.
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Mauresque, costume de ville 2017.R.17-18r.1
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Mauresque, costume d'intérieur 2017.R.17-18r.2
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Maure d'Alger 2017.R.17-18r.3
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Arabe de la plaine 2017.R.17-18r.4
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Femme kabyle 2017.R.17-19r.1
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Woman wearing a rolled and padded headdress.
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Kabyle 2017.R.17-19r.2
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Flute player seated on a mat.
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Mulâtre 2017.R.17-19r.3
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Woman holding a flat basket in one hand with her other hand on her hip.
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Negro 2017.R.17-19r.4
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Man seated on carpet playing a stringed instrument.
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Juif 2017.R.17-20r.1
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Seated man holding his shoes.
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Juive 2017.R.17-20r.2
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Full-length portrait of a woman standing next to a chair.
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Mendiant 2017.R.17-20r.3
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Three young girls.
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Yaouled de place 2017.R.17-20r.4
Scope and Contents
Two boys standing with their arms around each other's shoulders.
box 1, page 2nd blank page
box 1, page 3rd blank page
box 1, page Back endpapers
Back endpapers 2017.R.17-be
