Algeria Collection (#18)

Ouled-Nahils, Algeria - Southern Algerian Woman
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

Ruins of Timgad, Algeria
Timgad - Algeria - Roman Ruins. Known as Thamugas by the Romans, Timgad was a Roman colonial town in North Africa founded by the Emperor Trajan

Timgad - Algeria - Roman Ruins. Known as Thamugas by the Romans, Timgad was a Roman colonial town in North Africa founded by the Emperor Trajan

Sidi Ukba, Algeria
A street in Sidi Ukba (Okba) in the Biskra Province, Algeria. It was named after the Muslim General Uqba ibn Nafi who died there in 683 AD

Saint-Charles - Algeria - Orphans
A French Mission to Africa (Saint Charles) - nuns running a home for orphans in Algeria

Veiled Moorish Woman out walking - Algeria. She wears a remarkably voluminous costume with a headdress which folds up from her waist, an enormous bunched skirt and wide sleeves

Algerian Oasis - Biskra
An oasis close to Biskra in Algeria. Still waters and palm trees in the desert conjure up a romantic Northern Saharan scene. There is another oasis in the far distance

Interior of a Moorish Cafe - Algiers
The interior of a Moorish Cafe - Algiers, Algeria

Ain Sefra, Algeria - Headquarters of the African Hunters
The Headquarters of the African Hunters at Ain Sefra, Algeria. The town is called " The Gateway to the Desert" and is very close to the Moroccan border

Moorish Algerian Women smoking
Two Moorish Algerian women smoking cigarettes

Sweetness of Doing Nothing
Il dolce far niente... In Italian, it means " the sweetness of doing nothing"... She is likely a woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive

Arab Dancing Girls - Algeria
Arab Dancing Girls - Algiers, Algeria

Young Algerian girl and baby
A young Algerian girl carrying her baby

Moorish Woman reclining in her sitting room
A Moorish Woman reclining in a very Moorish Sitting Room, filled with elaborately patterned drapes and cushions. Fans and lanterns hang on the wall

Moorish Woman at the well
A Moorish Algerian woman raising water from a well in a small wooden bucket

Biskra - Southern Algeria - Cake and Date Seller
A Cake and Date seller in Biskra, Southern Algeria

Two Moorish Women - Algeria
An attractive hand-tinted postcard depicting two Moorish Women sitting and standing at the bottom of a narrow set of stairs leading to the upper level of a house

Moorish Dancer in traditional costume, Algeria

Moorish Woman smoking - Algeria
An Algerian Moorish Woman in wonderfully decorative traditional costume smoking a cigarette

Algeria - Beautiful Fatma
The Beauty Fatma - portarit of an Algerian woman

Moorish girl selling oranges - Algeria
A young Moorish girls sitting on some steps and selling oranges. She wears a very tired and bored expression

Three Algerian Girls looking in through the window
Three Algerian girls (Zorah, Aicha and Fatma) peer in through the window. A lovely composition and fine use of natural light

Girl from Southern Algeria (Biskra)
A young girl from Biskra in Southern Algeria

School of Carpet Making
A pupil at the School of Carpet-making run by Madame Delfau

Moorish Couscous maker - Algeria
A Moorish Couscous maker, Algeria

Algiers, Algeria - Tombouctou Street
Children on the winding, climbing, Tombouctou Street, Algiers, Algeria

Four happy Algerians
Four happy black Algerians, seated outside a building

Algeria - Charitable Embroidery School
Young girls at work on embroidery at the Charitable Institution run by Mrs Ben Aben. They sit and stitch in the natural light of the open courtyard

Government Square and the Casbah, Algiers, Algeria
Government Square (Place du Gouvernement) and the Casbah, Algiers, Algeria

Nomadic Camp - Algeria
A Nomadic Camp in Algeria. A family camped at an oasis in the desert under a low canvas tent, providing shade from the fierce heat of the sun

Children of the Kabyle People - Algeria
Young children of the Kabyle People - Berbers from North Eastern Algeria - estimated population today of 5 million individuals

French National Loan poster for the Credit Foncier d Algerie et de Tunisie, showing a busy scene in a North African port

Poster of Africa for a film distributor, AGDC
Poster of Africa, showing the territory of a French film distributor, the AGDC, l Alliance Generale de Distribution Cinematographique

Arthur Ranc / Gill
Arthur Ranc (1831-1908), Duel fighting, French politician and writer. Implicated in a plot against Napoleon III, imprisoned for belonging to a secret society

Algeria - Algiers - The Waterfront
The waterfront of Algiers, Algeria, showing the elegant colonaded seafront, supporting the tramlines running along the front

WW1 - French Turkos troops - Prisoners of War
WW1 - Captured French Turkos (or Turcos) troops - the nickname of the Algerian and Tunisian rifles of the French army, which were officially known as Tirailleurs Algeriens and Tirailleurs Tunisiens

Algeria - Algiers, Boulevard de France et L Amiraute

Algerian graveyard
An Algerian graveyard with tombstones

New Ferry at Bizerte, Algeria
The new ferry at Bizerte, Algeria

Ferdinand Le Lievre / Demare
Ferdinand Le Lievre (1799-1886) Prussian born, French Senator in Algeria (Algiers) between 1876-1885

Royal Mail Atlantis Cruises poster
Poster advertising a cruise on the RMSP Atlantis with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, featuring a smiling young woman in what looks like a North African location, carrying a water urn

Algeria - Kabyle Family
Mealtime for a family of the Kabyle People - Berbers from North Eastern Algeria

Womens Rights March in Algeria, at this time under French rule

Group of Algerian men and tame Lion
Group of Algerian men and tamed Lion, with a chain lead. The caption reads: A reassuring little partner

Mirage in the Desert
Mirage observed at Chott Melzhir, in the Sahara of southern Algeria

Spahis exercising - Algeria
Spahis were light cavalry regiments of the French army recruited primarily from the indigenous populations of Algeria. Here they are doing sword exercises

Head of a Fakir - Algeria
A superb (and very funny) photograph showing the head of an Algerian Fakir wearing a turban, with a chain round his neck and with his tongue sticking out!

Building a mill at an outdoor hay store at Oran, Algeria
Construction of a mill out of hay at Oran; also transliterated as Ouahran. From the Berber word Wahran, the plural of Wahra, i.e. " lion"

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