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2005.R.2*
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Tunisie et Tripolitaine
Identifier/Call Number: 2005.R.2*
Physical Description:
1 album(s)
(42 photographic prints)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1880
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Language of Material: Collection material is in French.
In original order.
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Acquired in 2005.
Tunisie et Tripolitaine, approximately 1880, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2005.R.2.
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).
Scope and Content of Collection
The focus of this album of albumen photographs is Tunisia, although it also contains five views of Tripoli and surrounding
areas in Libya. Tunisian locations represented are Carthage, Tunis, Bizerte, Sfax, and Qayrawān. Included are views of streets,
ports, Arab quarters, homes and palaces, markets, nomad encampments, and oases.
There are several interior and exterior views of the Qsar es-Saïd or Bardo Palace in Tunis before it became a museum in 1888,
as well as views of athe palace of Dar al-Taj in La Marsa. Views of ancient monuments include the Roman aqueduct in Tunis
and Punic tombs in Carthage. There are also five views of the Great Mosque of Qayrawān.
Titles of images are devised by the cataloger, except for those of four photographs that have French captions in the negative.
This album of unsigned photographs of Tunisia and Libya was compiled by an unidentified person.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Tunisia -- Description and travel
Albumen prints -- Libya -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Tunisia -- 19th century
Photographs, Original
Mosques -- Tunisia
Markets -- North Africa
Harbors -- Tunisia
Musée national du Bardo (Tunisia)
Tombs -- Tunisia
Streets -- North Africa
Palaces -- Tunisia
Oases -- Libya
Tunisia -- Antiquities
Libya -- Description and travel
Carthage (Extinct city)
Țarābulus (Libya : Province) -- Description and travel