Finding aid for the Claude-Joseph Portier Algérie photograph album, circa 1867 2017.R.17
Beth Ann Guynn
Special Collections
2018
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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.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
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
Arrangement
The archive is arranged in a single series: Series I. Claude-Joseph Portier Algérie Photograph Album, circa 1867.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Digitized items
Digitized by the repository in 2018. The images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2017r17
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired in 2017.
Processing Information
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
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
box 1, page 3 recto
Rue de la Marine 2017.R.17-3r
box 1, page 4 recto
Notre-Dame d'Afrique 2017.R.17-4r
box 1, page 5 recto
Mosquée d'Alger 2017.R.17-5r
box 1, page 6 recto
Mosquée Sidi-Abdheraman 2017.R.17-6r
box 1, page 7 recto
Mosquée à Alger 2017.R.17-7r
box 1, page 8 recto
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
Scope and Contents
View looking up a street towards its steps.
box 1, page 10 recto
Rue à Alger 2017.R.17-10r
Scope and Contents
View of a narrow passageway between buildings.
box 1, page 11 recto
Rue à Alger 2017.R.17-11r
Scope and Contents
View of a hooded figure about to descend the stairs into a dark passageway.
box 1, page 12 recto
Jardin d'essai 2017.R.17-12r
box 1, page 13 recto
[View of an Empty Salon] 2017.R.17-13r
box 1, page 15 recto
[Man Sitting beneath a Tree at the Edge of a Road] 2017.R.17-15r
box 1, page 16 recto
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
Scope and Contents
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.
box 1, page 18 recto-1
Mauresque, costume de ville 2017.R.17-18r.1
box 1, page 18 recto-2
Mauresque, costume d'intérieur 2017.R.17-18r.2
box 1, page 18 recto-3
Maure d'Alger 2017.R.17-18r.3
box 1, page 18 recto-4
Arabe de la plaine 2017.R.17-18r.4
box 1, page 19 recto-1
Femme kabyle 2017.R.17-19r.1
Scope and Contents
Woman wearing a rolled and padded headdress.
box 1, page 19 recto-2
Kabyle 2017.R.17-19r.2
Scope and Contents
Flute player seated on a mat.
box 1, page 19 recto-3
Mulâtre 2017.R.17-19r.3
Scope and Contents
Woman holding a flat basket in one hand with her other hand on her hip.
box 1, page 19 recto-4
Negro 2017.R.17-19r.4
Scope and Contents
Man seated on carpet playing a stringed instrument.
box 1, page 20 recto-1
Juif 2017.R.17-20r.1
Scope and Contents
Seated man holding his shoes.
box 1, page 20 recto-2
Juive 2017.R.17-20r.2
Scope and Contents
Full-length portrait of a woman standing next to a chair.
box 1, page 20 recto-3
Mendiant 2017.R.17-20r.3
Scope and Contents
Three young girls.
box 1, page 20 recto-4
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
