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three old black and white photographs of women and horses in a bookan old black book with a picture of a woman in a nun ' s robeseveral old books are stacked on top of each other on a tablean old photo of a couple of people standing next to each otheran old black and white photo of two women dressed in traditional clothingan old black and white photo of a man and a womanan old black and white photo of two women in traditional clothingan old photo of a group of people sitting outside of a tentblack and white photograph of a hallway in an old buildingan old black and white photo of a group of women and childrena book opened to show a picture of a nun
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15 - [ALGERIA – PHOTOGRAPHY]. PORTIER (Claude-Joseph).
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Estimate €600 - €800
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[ALGERIA – PHOTOGRAPHY]. PORTIER (Claude-Joseph). PICTURESQUE ALGERIA – ALGERIAN CHARACTERS, etc. 65 photographs in an ivy-green shagreen folder with fabric flaps and ribbons, the initials ‘E. G. ’ embossed on the front cover with the inscription ‘Algérie’, traces of ribbons on the front cover. SET OF 65 PHOTOGRAPHS on albumen paper, of various sizes, mounted on card (40 × 30 cm). 49 photographs bear the generic title “Picturesque Algeria”, the photographer’s signature “C. Portier, Pho.[photographer]” and the following captions: “Algerian Types” (18 photographs), “Moorish Interior” (5 photographs), “Street in Algiers” (3 photographs), “Arab Camp (nomads)” (2 photographs), “Boudzaréa” (3 photographs), “Algiers” (2 photographs); 16 photographs bear various captions (“Moorish Café”, “Birkadem (Moorish Fountain)”, “Marabout of Sidi Tacouz (Tlemcen)”, etc.) and 16 photographs have neither captions nor signatures. Claude-Joseph PORTIER (1841–1910), a French photographer active in Algiers from 1863 to 1882, is regarded as one of the most talented photographers to have worked in Algiers. A FINE COLLECTION.
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Auction time 11/12/2026 at 2:00 PM
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