Algeria Collection (#19)

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"

Black African Mother & Child from Southern Algeria

Souvenir postcard from Algiers
Algiers, Algeria, North Africa. A souvenir postcard showing the an Arab Street in the Casbah, St Eugenie and the Boulevard Front de Mer, the Medressa and the Tomb of St Abderhamam (Abdul Rahman)

Soldier from Southern Algeria, wearing a wide-brimmed sombrero-style hat and an open wool jelaba

Mohammed Ben Bouaziz Ben Gana - at a reception
Reception for the French Minister for Public works at the house of Bach Agha Ben Ganab. One of the guests is Mohammed Ben Bouaziz Ben Gana - one of the most important Algerian Arab Sheikhs - much

Algerian Bedouin Girl
Very serious-looking Algerian Bedouin Girl, adorned with charm necklace and beads and what looks like a wooden spoon (?)

Five Jolly Africans from Algeria
Five very jolly black Africans from southern Algeria

Abd El Qadir
Abd-el Qadir (variously spelt) agrees to support Napoleon as emperor and to call an end to Algerian resistance to French dominion

French Fight Moroccans
Conflict with the French and raiders from Morocco on the Algerian-Moroccan border

Hyena (Kronheim)
A fierce-looking hyena of Algeria

Military Camels
MEHARISTES MILITAIRES - French troops mounted on camels for operations in southern Algeria (Sahara). [Note that the lower pair are suplicates.]

Algeria / Timgad
Timgad was constructed as a bastion against the Berbers in the Aures Mountains by Emperor Trajan in AD100. The town was laid out in the classic Roman plan and is superbly preserved

Algerian Fishing Boat
Two-masted fishing boat with lateen sails used by Algerian fishermen

Prisoners Deported
Political prisoners leave the Abbaye prison, Paris, for deportation to Algeria

View of Algiers
Algiers seen from the sea

Algerian Man & Woman
Algerian man and woman

Algerian Officials
Three Algerian officials

Algerian Women Indoors
Algerian women in their indoor clothes

Algerian Men and Woman
Algerian Jewish man and woman, and an Algerian Moor

Camels Drinking
At La Segnia, (probably in Algeria) two camels kneel to drink from an irrigation trench

Algiers Bombarded
Algiers, notorious as the home port of pirates terrorising shipping in the Mediterranean, is bombarded by vessels of the Royal Navy commanded by Lord Exmouth.1yn

Constantine Captured
After a prolonged siege, the town is occupied by the French

Algeria / Djidjelli
(fdormerly known as Gigeri) Harbour on the Algerian coast not far from Constantine

Algiers / Port C1700
Algiers: view of the port, with ships

Algiers / From Sea 1891
Algiers: panoramic view from the sea

Algiers / Casbah 1910
Algiers: a street in the Casbah

ALGIERS
Algiers: general view Date: late 19th century?

Algeria / Algiers C1905
Algiers: Boulevard Chasseloup-Laubat

Algeria / Constantine 1910
Constantine: Place de la Breche

Algeria Farm
The farm of a French settler, doing its best to look like a farm back in France

Algeria Oran
View taken from the Marina

Algeria Village
Distant view of a Kabyle village

Algeria Constantine
General view

Algeria Blida
Street scene with shops and traders in the town, also known as El Boulaida

Algeria Oasis
Oasis of Laghouat

Algeria Biskra
General view of the town, whose fortifications suggest that visitors are unwelcome

Algeria Algiers
General view of the town viewed from the Kheir-el-Din pier

Hawking in Algeria
An Algerian falconer with two hunting birds

Algiers, Rue Randon
La rue Randon : my guess is that the children in the foreground are the photographers daughters

Kabyle Homes, Algeria
Homes of Kabyle tribespeople, Algeria

Dairos of French Africa
Dairos (native cavalry of the French Armee d Afrique) carry out police duties in Algeria

Dairos of French Africa2
Dairos (native cavalry of the French Armee d Afrique) carry out police duties in Algeria; here they are rounding up prisoners who have defied the French occupation

French Colonial Troops
French Colonial forces from Senegal, India, Algeria, Annam (Vietnam), Madagascar - and the Foreign Legion

Tourists in Algeria 1920
Tourists in an Algerian street

Agence De Desertion / 1909
Legion Etrangere : a deserter at an Agence de Desertion in Algeria

Kepthorns Victory
Capt Kempthorn in " Mary Rose" defeats seven Algerian men-of- war

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