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ALGERIA - Album in-8 oblong publisher's red cloth...

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ALGERIA - Album in-8 oblong publisher's red cloth containing 54 original photographs mounted on the album pages and captioned, taken in 1903. Format: 12 x 17 cm. Locations: Far South Oran, Beni-Ounif, Djan-en-Dar, Ksar el Adjouz, Zaffrani, Taghit, Igli, Mazzer, Beni-Abbes, ... Photo subjects: Running camel; Meharists; Loading a camel; Tent of si El Gebbas, member of Mission Franco-marocaine (M'hammed El Guebbas 1847-1934 was a Moroccan statesman. From 1913 to 1917, he was Grand Vizier of the Cherifian Empire (Morocco)); Beni-Ounif: the mosque, the Ksar; Djnan ed-Dar: French discipline camp, officers' mess;, interior of the former Redoubt, garden, dovecote, a platoon of Spahis; Ksar en Adjouz: the Post Office, military convoy in Oued Zousfana; Zaffrani: the camp; Taghit: the camp; the post office and the large dune; the palm grove, the spur fort; Igli: the mosque and the new post office, the post office, the Ksar; Mazzer: the Ksar, the market, the camp; Benni-Abbès: Commander's hut; panorama of Beni-Abbès; the palm grove, the Oued; Engineer detachment and hut; Engineer detachment in the palm grove; the post as seen from the palm grove; the post as seen from the plateau; the palm grove, the Arab office; Face des subsistances; the shower; the Ksar; Ksar des Ghenanema; Ksar des Harratin; Ksar des harratin, the tower; Arab Fantasia; Arab dances, the pilou-pilou; A barley-moulder; Schoolchildren at the sand collection; Douar; Well; Mazagran Festival, the theater; Jewish jewelers from Kenadsa; Mokhazenis distributing barley; Arrival of a convoy; Most of the photos are in a good state of preservation.