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Veiled Men

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

Date: 1930
Description: Red poppies and other wildflowers are blooming in profusion near a camp of seven tents. Towels or laundry are hanging from clotheslines, and there is an au...
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Group Portrait

Date: 1930
Description: A group of two men, two women and four children in traditional dress are posing in front of the door of a brick dwelling. Three of the children are sitting...
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Algerian Man

Date: 1930
Description: An autochrome waist-up portrait of an Algerian man wearing a turban. He is wearing a western style vest under his robe; a key is hanging from a chain attac...
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Algerian Woman

Date: 1930
Description: A woman is posing sitting in the doorway of a brick building. She has facial tattoos and is wearing a head scarf over her braided hair.
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Two Girls

Date: 1930
Description: Two young girls are posing outdoors wearing traditional dress. The girl on the left is standing and leaning against the stone wall behind her, and the seco...
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Seated Sheik

Date: 1930
Description: A turbanned man, identified as a Sheik, is sitting on a patterned rug on the ground in front of a doorway. He is wearing a red robe with elaborate gold tri...
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Woman and Child

Date: 1930
Description: A woman is standing in a doorway with her right hand resting on the head of a small girl. Both of them are wearing traditional dress with head scarves. The...
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Sheik and Wife

Date: 1930
Description: A man, identified only as "Sheik" is posing with his wife in a doorway with a curtain hanging behind them. The man is wearing a white robe over a Western-s...
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Two Families

Date: 1930
Description: A group identified by the photographer as "two couples, four kids" are posing in front of a brick dwelling. One man and woman are standing in the doorway; ...
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Sleeping Man

Date: 1930
Description: A man, wearing a white turban and a blue cape or blanket wrapped around him, is sleeping on pillows and a carpet in front of a tent. A carpet has been drap...
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Girl and Plow

Date: 1930
Description: A young girl is posing with a wooden plow while holding the trunk and a branch of a flowering tree. She is wearing a dress, cape, head scarf, and an ankle ...
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Sheik

Date: 1930
Description: A man wearing a turban and cape with gold trim is standing and smiling in an open doorway, with a curtain hanging behind him and a pillow in front of his f...
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Two Girls

Date: 1930
Description: Two young girls are posing outdoors wearing traditional dress. The girl on the left is standing and leaning against the stone wall behind her, and the seco...
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Woman

Date: 1925
Description: A woman is posing for a head and shoulders portrait in the doorway of a dwelling. She is wearing traditional dress with head scarf and a bead necklace. Her...
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Woman in Doorway

Date: 1930
Description: A woman in traditional dress is posing in a doorway for a three-quarters seated portrait. She has facial and forearm tattoos, a beaded necklace and two pen...
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Woman Sitting

Date: 1930
Description: Portrait of a woman sitting on the ground against a white plaster wall. She is wearing a richly embroidered dress and shawl, and a headdress with metal ban...
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Four Wives

Date: 1930
Description: Four young women, one holding an infant, are posing sitting on a rug on the ground, inside the corner of two walls. Identified by the photographer only as ...
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Woman and Child with Dog

Date: 1930
Description: A woman and young girl are posing, sitting on the ground on a patterned carpet, with a dog resting with them. The woman has forearm tattoos, multiple brace...
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Two Wives and Baby

Date: 1930
Description: Two women, identified by the photographer as "wives" (possibly both wives of the same man), posing in the doorway of a stone building. The wooden door behi...

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