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"A Votre Sante"

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of men, women and children having a meal outdoors on the ground. They are gathered around a box being used as a table. Cu...
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Arch at Kremassa

Date: 1930
Description: The remains of an arch surrounded by tumbled stones and ruins of an archaeological site. A dirt track in the foreground goes through the arch and rises to ...
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Camp at El Kantara

Date: 1930
Description: The camp at El Kantara, Algeria. In the foreground, members of the expedition are sleeping on pallets, under blankets. Just beyond the sleepers are two tru...
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Caid Kahlifa Lamin

Date: 1930
Description: Caid Kahlifa Lamin poses in front of an opening, perhaps a door, in a cement wall, covered with a cloth hanging. He is dressed in official attire and is st...
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Mrs. Pond Wearing Indigenous Apparel

Date: 1930
Description: Dorothy Pond posing dressed in indigenous apparel, including jewelry, as a Mauresque. She appears to be standing in a doorway partially covered with a clot...
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Algerians Praying

Date: 1927
Description: Algerian Muslims touching their foreheads to the ground in prayer outside of a mosque.
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Girl at a Well

Date: 1927
Description: A Kabyle girl holding a pail at the well, with another pail sitting on the ground at her feet. The well has a stone wall around it with a rope and pulley s...
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Flume and Mill House

Date: 1927
Description: Two men are standing in front of a stone mill house and wooden flume. Another man is just visible crouching inside the doorway of the mill house. The flume...
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Cap Carbon and Lighthouse

Date: 1927
Description: A switchback path leading to Cap Carbon and the lighthouse perched near the summit of the peninsula. The lighthouse is built on top of a giant rock that pr...
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Bridge Over Gorge

Date: 1929
Description: High suspension bridge over gorge at Constantine in north eastern Algeria.
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Ancient Chariot Wheel Ruts

Date: 1929
Description: Chariot wheel ruts can still be seen in Timgad, the ruins of an ancient Roman colonial town in north eastern Algeria. Columns are along both sides of the s...
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Outside the Walls of Tebessa

Date: 1929
Description: Outside the walls of Tebessa, in north eastern Algeria. Hills are in the far background.
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Oxen at the Well

Date: 1929
Description: Three men working with an oxen to draw water from a well with a skin bucket. The well has a stone structure holding the pulley.
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Woman Weaving a Rug

Date: 1929
Description: A woman is sitting at a loom, weaving a rug.
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Sheep Market

Date: 05 1929
Description: View of a sheep market at Canrobert, Algeria. A crowd of Algerians and small herds of sheep gatherd in an open area. Buildings are on the right and back wi...
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Food Market

Date: 1929
Description: A groups of Algerians shop in a market in Canrobert. Vegetables can be seen in baskets on stepped wooden benches and on the ground. A stone building with a...
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Group of People Posing in Front of Home

Date: 05 1929
Description: Dorothy Pond and her daughter, Chomingwen Pond, pose with Monsieur and Madame Bernard in front of their house in Canrobert, Algeria. Flowers are planted in...
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Where the Bey Holds Court

Date: 1929
Description: The ornate entrance to the building where the bey (chieftain) holds court in Bardo, Tunis. Carved stone lions are perched on both side of the staircase. Co...
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Greeting Algerian Men

Date: 1925
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide showing Count Byron de Prorok, and other members of the Algerian expedition, greeting veiled Algerian men.
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Veiled Men

Date: 1925
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide portrait of two veiled Tuareg men.

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