Algeria Collection (#16)

Tobacco industry in Algiers
Algeria : delivering tobacco to the shop of Hussein-Dey, Algiers Date: 1862

Bejaia viewed from the sea
Bejaia (Bougie) in Kabylia, north eastern Algeria, as sketched by a visitor to the area

Plain of Bejaia viewed from the ramparts
Plain of Bejaia(Bougie), in Kabylia, north eastern Algeria, viewed from the ramparts

Bejaia and the Atlas Mountains
Bejaia (Bougie) and the Atlas Mountains, north eastern Algeria

A man and woman of Tunis, Algiers or Tripoli
A man and woman of Tunis, Tunisia - Algiers, Algeria or Tripoli, Libya. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Algeria - Nomadic Encampment

Algeria - Gourbi Tent and occupants at a desert oasis

Women of the Ouled-Nails resting, Algeria
Women of the Ouled-Nails resting and drinking tea. Women from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing

The Bab al-Bahr (Gate of the Sea) - Bejaia, Algeria
The Bab al-Bahr (Gate of the Sea, also known as the Serrazine Gate) at Bejaia (Bougie), Algeria

Skikda (Philippeville), Algeria - French Barracks
Skikda (Philippeville), Algeria - The French Barracks

The steps leading down to a Fondouk at Bousaada, Algeria
The steps leading down to a Fondouk courtyard with palm trees and camel at Bousaada, Algeria. The Fandouks are the old inns and trading posts for a city

Algiers, Algeria, Mosque of Sidi Abderhaman

Extended Family of Nomads - Algeria
An extended family of Algerian nomadic tribespeople huddle beside their tented encampment

Shoemaker at Skikda, Algeria
Shoemaker at Skikda (formerly Philipeville), Algeria, North Africa

A Shoeshine boy - New Years Card
Shoeshine boy from Algeria, holding a bunch of flowers, wishing the cards recipient a Happy 1906 !

French Military Hospital - Algiers, Algeria
The French Military Hospital ( du Dey ) at Algiers, Algeria

Caid Bouhafs, Biskra, Algeria
The Caid Bouhafs - Important local Algerian Chief from Biskra

The Medressa - Algiers, Algeria
The Medressa (Islamic Religious School) at Algiers, Algeria, with a view out over the Mediterranean Sea

Algiers, Algeria, Boy by the harbour
Young boy on the harbour wall at the port of Algiers, Algeria about to take a dive into the water!

Playing Chess in Algeria
Four Algerian men playing chess in a shady section of a secluded courtyard

Black Village at Oran, Algeria

Algiers, Algeria, Waterfront
Taking a stroll along the Waterfront at Algiers, Algeria - the Boulevard de la Republique. A typical French resort!

Camels at a Fondouk
Camels at a Fandouk (trading post), Algeria, North Africa. The Fandouks are the old inns and trading posts for a city. Animals of the traders were housed inside the courtyards of the fandouk

Dancing at an Arabian Marriage - Algeria
Dancing at an Arab Wedding - Algeria

Belly Dancer - Algeria

Biskra - Street of Ouled Nails
The houses of the Ouled Nails, Biskra, Algeria. The women of the Ouled-Nails earned money through belly dancing. The women are heavily made-up, going unveiled at all times and wear their hair up

The port at Bone, Algeria
Bone, Algeria. The Port

El Kantara, Constantine, Algeria
A woman carrying a huge bundle of palm branches on her back in the suburb of El Kantara, Constantine, Algeria

Loading up a camel - Algeria. There is a set of scales (and administration desk) in the background to make sure the weight of the goods is correctly recorded prior to departure

Captured French Algerian soldiers during the First World War, in captivity in Gottingen, Germany in 1915

French troops practising using a mortar in Algeria
French troops practising firing a mortar in Algeria

Algeria - Staoueli - Avenue d Alger
The Algiers Avenue, Staoueli. There was a motor racing circuit here and a Grand Prix was held at Staoueli between 1928-30

Algeria - Staoueli - Rue Centrale. A Motor Racing circuit was here and a Grand Prix race was held between 1928 - 1930

Algiers - Grape Pressing by monks
Grape Pressing by monks at the Abbaye de Notre Dame de Staoueli - Algiers, Algeria

Weaving - Southern Algeria
Southern Algeria - Sahara - Goubi Women from Kames weaving on a lightweight loom in the shade of a palm tree at an oasis

Rue Sidi Abdalah - The Kasbah, Algiers
Rue Sidi Abdalah in the Kasbah, Algiers. A kasbah or Qassabah is a type of medina, an Islamic city, or fortress

Biskra - Southern Algeria - Mosque Sidi Abdel el-Moumen
Mosque Sidi Abdel el-Moumen - Biskra, Algeria

Algerian Moorish Cafe
Moorish Cafe in Algeria - interior

Algerian men drinking outside a cafe - Algiers
A terrific photograph of three Algerian men, seated around a small circular table outside a cafe in Algiers, Algeria

Palace of the Bey of the Kasbah, Algiers
The ancient Gate of Honour of the Ancient Palace of the Bey of the Kasbah, Algiers, Algeria. A kasbah or Qassabah is a type of medina, Islamic city, or fortress

Medressa - Algiers
The Medressa (Religious School) in Algiers, Algeria

Djemaa el-Djedid Mosque and Consulate Palace - Algiers
The Consulate Palace and Djemaa el-Djedid Mosque at Algiers, Algeria. Contrary to its name, the New Mosque, (the Djemaa el-Djedid) sometimes also called the Pcherie Mosque

The Grand Hotel du Sahara at Biskra in southern Algeria

Offices of La Depeche Algerienne
Where Boulevard Laferriere meets Rue D Isly, with the offices of La Depeche Algerienne newspaper and a fantastically-ornate Post Office building (right), Algiers, Algeria

Municipal Theatre - Algiers
The Municipal Theatre, Algiers

Algiers - The Station at Bab el-Oued and Malakoff Street (named after the Russian fort the French captured at the Battle of Sebastopol), Algeria

The Covered Market at Khenchela, Algeria. A fine example of pseudo-Arab French architecture. Khenchela the capital city of the administrative Khenchela Province (Wilaya), in the northeast of Algeria

The Admiralty and naval vessels - Algiers
The Admiralty and elements of the Algerian Navy. The lighthouse can be seen in rear

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