Algeria Collection

Moorish Belly Dancer - Algeria
Arabian Belly Dancer - Algeria

The Sahara Desert, North west Africa - two camels stride across the sand, accompanied by their Bedouin owner. Date: circa 1915

Algiers, Algeria - Harbour View
The harbour viewed from the lighthouse, Algiers, Algeria - close to the Admiralty. Date: circa 1910s

Algeria - Woman smoking a nargile pipe
Algeria - woman smoking a nargile (Hookah Pipe)

Algeria - Oran - Rue d Arzew. Date: circa 1910s

Abd El Kader, Algerian leader
Abd El Kader (Abd al-Qadir, El Amir Abdelkader), Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader who led a resistance to French occupation in the mid-nineteenth century

Khadidja, Exotic Dancer with Veil - Algeria
Khadidja, Exotic Dancer with Veil (barely!) - Algeria. Date: circa 1910s

Woman of the Algerian Berber Ouled Nails Tribe
Woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

Algiers, Algeria - Waterfront Boulevards
Algiers, Algeria - Les Boulevards et les Coteaux (the slopes/ramps) de Mustapha Superieur. Date: circa 1920s

Air Algerie Breguet 761S Deux Ponts

View of Tebessa Street, Souk Ahras, NE Algeria, including a Turkish bath. Date: circa 1920

Fantastic Wooden Screw Olive Press - Kabyle People, Algeria
Absolutely Fantastic Wooden Olive Screw Press - Kabyle People, Algeria. The traditional Kabylian economy of the area is based on arboriculture (orchards and olive trees)

Kabyle Village of Taourirt - Northern Algeria in the Bouira Province - The Kabyle people are Berbers from North Eastern Algeria - estimated population today of 5 million individuals. Date: circa 1910s

Young Algerian Mother breastfeeding her infant. Date: circa 1910s

Jijel, Algeria - Hotel Djidjelli-Plage
Jijel (Djidjelli, Igilgili), Algeria - The Hotel Djidjelli-Plage. Algeria was (at this point) still under French control - hence the tricolore flying from the rooftop flagpole. circa 1920s

Oran, Algeria - Marshal Foch Square and Santa Cruz Hills. Date: circa 1920s

Main Street, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria. Date: circa 1925

Map of the war in North Africa by G. H. Davis
The war in North Africa: a strategic contour map of the desert arena during the Second World War. Conflict began there in September 1940. Date: 1942

Oran - Place D Armes and the Town Hall
The Place D Armes and the Town Hall at Oran, Algeria

Rue des Ouleds-Naדּand Moorish cafes, Biskra
The busy street of Ouleds-Naדּ, Biskra, lined with several Moorish cafes. Date: circa 1910s

Gulf of Stora near Philippeville (Skikda), Algeria
Gulf of Stora on the Mediterranean, near Philippeville (Skikda), Algeria. Date: circa 1905

Street and bay, Philippeville (Skikda), Algeria
Street with a view of the bay, Philippeville (Skikda), Algeria. Date: circa 1932

Dance of the Ouled Nails in Southern Algeria, North Africa
Dance of the Ouled Nails in Southern Algeria, showing their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

PLM Poster, Touring Club de France, advertising rail travel to Algeria and Tunisia. Showing a man riding a camel in the desert. 20th century

Tlemcen - Tomb of the Princess - Algeria
Tomb of the Princess at Tlemcen ( The Pearl of the Maghreb ) in northwestern Algeria - capital of Tlemcen Province. The name Tlemcen comes from the Berber for Dry Spring

Algerian Dancer
An Algerian Belly Dancer - holding aloft her scarf, in an alluring pose

Pilgrims returning to Algeria from Mecca, having undertaking the Hajj, the pilgrimage every able-bodied Muslim is required to undertake at least once in their lifetime

Post Office at Algeria
Tizi-Ouzou in Algeria - the Post Office - with beautiful under-roof (and between-door) tiled decoration

Foreign Legion / Algeria
French Foreign Legion in action in the Sud-Oranais

Panoramic view of Oran, NW Algeria
Panoramic view of Oran harbour and city, NW Algeria. Date: circa 1920

Algeria Market
Market outside Tebessa : chiefly sheep

Algerian Belly Dancer
Traditional Algerian Belly Dancer. Date: circa 1907

Steamship harbour at Algiers - the wine export section
The steamship harbour at Algiers - the wine export section. Thousands of barrels of wine awaiting transportation to Europe

Tizi Ouzou - Mosque Layla Saida, Algeria
Tizi Ouzou is a city in Kabylia, Algeria - the capital and largest city of Tizi Ouzou Province and of Great Kabylia (western part of Kabylia), Algeria

The Ruins of Mansoura - Algeria
The Ruins of Mansoura - Tlemcen, Algeria

Young women of the Kabyle Tribe, Algeria
Young Kabyle Women from Taourirt Des Beni Menguellet in the Djurdjura or Jurjura Range, a mountain range of the Tell Atlas, part of the Atlas Mountain System, located in Kabylie, Algeria

Young Beggar Girl - Algeria. Date: 1900s

Moorish Bathhouse - Algeria. Date: circa 1909

Algerian Dancer - Exotic moorish girl with Tambourine Date: circa 1910s

Father Serapion martyred in Algeria, North Africa
Father Serapion, an English or Irish Mercedarian friar, offers himself as a hostage in order to free captive Christians in Algeria, North Africa

Jijel, Algeria - The Bank of Algeria (Banque de l Algerie) building, designed by French Architect Gustave Umbdenstock. circa 1910s

Djidjelli, Algeria - Casino and Grand Hotel de la Plage. circa 1920s

United States Army Air Force Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain 41-18608 (MSN 4769) to USaF 25 October 1942, bailed to the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE), Boscombe Down

Gnawa musicians - ethnic group inhabiting Morocco and Algeria in the Maghreb. Gnawa music is characterized by instrumentation

Women of the Ouled Nails - Dancers and Musicians. Date: circa 1910

Germany, Berlin - Ost West-Achse
The Marabout de Sidi-Brahim at Bou Saada (Bou-Saada) - a town and municipality in M Sila Province, Algeria, situated 245 km south of Algiers Date: circa 1910s

Algeria - Interior of a Moorish Home - First Floor interior balcony with remarkable peacock sculpture (and real peacock feathers) Date: 1905

Ain El Fouara Fountain - Setif, Algeria, North Africa
Setif, Algeria in the Province of Constantinois - Ain El Fouara Fountain. A French work by sculptor Francis de Saint-Vidal was placed atop a far earlier Fountain

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