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Trench at Medfoun

Date: 1929
Description: Men excavating a trench in the escargotiere (snail midden) at Medfoun. Brahim is in the trench and Shabane is standing with the shovel. A screen and piles ...
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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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Smoke from Mount Vesuvius

Date: 1929
Description: Sulphurous smoke rising from the crater of Mount Vesuvius, near the shore of the Bay of Naples, Italy.
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Cleopatra's Needle

Date: 1930
Description: An elevated view of the rock formation in Devil's Lake State Park known as Cleopatra's Needle.
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Saturday Picnic

Date: 06 20 1936
Description: Men, women and children have gathered under the trees at the picnic grounds at Interstate Park. Containers of food have been set out on the picnic tables; ...
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Tomb of Queen Tin Hinan at Abelessa, Algeria

Date: 11 15 1925
Description: View of the tomb of Queen Tin Hinan from the south. Three people are standing on top of the tomb. Mountains and the city of El Oued can be seen in the back...
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Count de Prorok Receives Venus from Tomb of Tin Hinan

Date: 11 1925
Description: Louis Chapuis handing up a Venus statue to Count Byron de Prorok from the Tomb of Tin Hinan in Abelessa, Algeria.
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Expedition in Full Desert

Date: 1925
Description: Sahara expedition team, including Alonzo Pond and Count Byron de Prorok, riding a caravan of camels through the desert. Caption reads: "293 The Expedition ...
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Vehicle Stuck in Wet Sand

Date: 1925
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide showing a group of men on an archaeological expedition in Algeria pushing one of the expedition vehicles nicknamed "Hot Dog" in ...
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Algerian Expedition Camp

Date: 1925
Description: Members of the Algerian Expedition in the desert under the shelter of a tent open at the sides and front. The men are on the ground in sleeping bags. A hat...
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Tuareg Woman

Date: 1925
Description: Autochrome portrait of a tattooed Tuareg woman posing in front of a patterned cloth hanging behind her. She is wearing a head wrap, as well as several brac...
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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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Caid Belaïd Dining

Date: 1925
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide showing an Caid Belaïd, Tuareg interpreter for Alonzo Pond's 1925 Algerian expedition, sitting on pillows and rugs on the floor ...
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Paying Respects to Père Charles Eugène de Foucauld

Date: 1925
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of Alonzo Pond, Count Byron de Prorok and other members of the Algerian expedition paying respects to slain missionary Father Ch...
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Tuareg Artifacts

Date: 1925
Description: Autochrome documentary display of several colorful objects collected from Tuareg people by Alonzo Pond on his Algerian expedition. Included are a bowl, a k...
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Cave of the Mounds

Date: 1941
Description: Arthur Pond, wearing knickers, heavy stockings, a coat and hat is standing admiring the walls in the Cave of the Mounds. On the reverse of the photograph i...

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