Finding Aid for Tunisie et Tripolitaine, approximately 1880 2005.R.2*
Beth Ann Guynn
Special Collections
2010
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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
Abstract: An album containing photographs of Tunisia, Tripoli, and surrounding areas in Libya.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in French.
Arrangement
In original order.
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 2005.
Preferred Citation
Tunisie et Tripolitaine, approximately 1880, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2005.R.2.
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).
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.
Biographical/Historical Note
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
box 1*, page 1 recto
[View of Tunis] 2005.R.2-1
box 1*, page 2 recto
[View of the Medina, Tunis] 2005.R.2-2
box 1*, page 3 recto
[View of Tunis from the Casbah] 2005.R.2-3
box 1*, page 4 recto
[Avenue de la marine, Tunis] 2005.R.2-4
box 1*, page 5 recto
[Facade of Dar al-Taj Palace, La Marsa] 2005.R.2-5
box 1*, page 6 recto
[Interior Courtyard, Bardo Palace] 2005.R.2-6
box 1*, page 7 recto
Palace de la casbah 2005.R.2-7
Scope and Contents
Captioned in negative and numbered: No. 25 bis.
box 1*, page 8 recto
[Roman Aqueduct, Tunis] 2005.R.2-8
box 1*, page 9 recto
Porte de maíson arabe 2005.R.2-9
Scope and Contents
Captioned in negative and numbered: 480.
box 1*, page 10 recto
[View towards Throne in the Throne Hall, Bardo Palace] 2005.R.2-10
box 1*, page 11 recto
[Interior of an Arab Home, Tunis] 2005.R.2-11
box 1*, page 12 recto
[Settee and Chair Set against a Tiled Wall, Bardo Palace?] 2005.R.2-12
box 1*, page 13 recto
[Bed of Sadok Bey, Qsar es Saïd Palace, Tunis] 2005.R.2-13
box 1*, page 14 recto
[Nomad Encampment, Outskirts of Tunis] 2005.R.2-14
box 1*, page 15 recto
[Port of Carthage] 2005.R.2-15
box 1*, page 16 recto
[Punic Tombs, Carthage] 2005.R.2-16
box 1*, page 17 recto
[View, Looking Towards Port of Carthage] 2005.R.2-17
box 1*, page 18 recto
[Muslim Cemetery, Tunis] 2005.R.2-18
box 1*, page 19 recto
[Long View of Bardo Palace] 2005.R.2-19
box 1*, page 20 recto
[Patio and Entrance of Bardo Palace] 2005.R.2-20
box 1*, page 21 recto
[La Goulette, Outskirts of Tunis] 2005.R.2-21
box 1*, page 22 recto
[View of the Port of Bizerte] 2005.R.2-22
box 1*, page 23 recto
[View of a Canal, Bizerte] 2005.R.2-23
box 1*, page 24 recto
[Typical Arab Buildings] 2005.R.2-24
box 1*, page 25 recto
[Great Mosque of Qayrawān] 2005.R.2-25
box 1*, page 26 recto
[View in Qayrawān] 2005.R.2-26
box 1*, page 27 recto
[Courtyard, Great Mosque of Qayrawān] 2005.R.2-27
box 1*, page 28 recto
[Patio, Great Mosque of Qayrawān] 2005.R.2-28
box 1*, page 29 recto
[Prayer Hall, Great Mosque of Qayrawān] 2005.R.2-29
box 1*, page 30 recto
[Minbar, Great Mosque of Qayrawān] 2005.R.2-30
box 1*, page 31 recto
[Outskirts of Qayrawān] 2005.R.2-31
box 1*, page 32 recto
[Cargo Camels in a Libyan Village] 2005.R.2-32
box 1*, page 33 recto
[View of Tripoli] 2005.R.2-33
box 1*, page 34 recto
[Oasis, Tripolitania] 2005.R.2-34
box 1*, page 35 recto
[Ford in an Oasis, Libya] 2005.R.2-35
box 1*, page 36 recto
Tripoli 2005.R.2-36
Scope and Contents
Captioned in negative and numbered: 529. Depcits a street scene in Tripoli.
box 1*, page 37 recto
[Market, Sfax, Tunisia] 2005.R.2-37
box 1*, page 38 recto
Epicier arabe 2005.R.2-38
Scope and Contents
Captioned in negative and nunbered: 485.
box 1*, page 39 recto
[Arab market] 2005.R.2-39
box 1*, page 41 recto
[Souk in the Médina, Tunis] 2005.R.2-41
box 1*, page 42 recto
[Native Woman Serving Coffee] 2005.R.2-42
Scope and Contents
Reproduction of a painting.
