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Algeria ALGÉRIE - Mauresques dans leur intérieur
[ca. 1905]
Africa; Algeria
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Printed text on recto reads: "578. ALGÉRIE - Mauresques dans leur intérieur." Translated caption reads: [ALGERIA - Moorish women inside their house.] Two young women sitting in a couch, a small coffee table at their feet, jars on both side of the bench. Both of them wearing baggy pants, scarves around their head.
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 2: Algeria (AE)
- Catalog date
- [ca. 1905]
- Recorded places
- Africa; Algeria
- Recorded subjects
- Households
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA AE 1995-0012-13
Collection: African Postcard Collection