Algeria ORAN - Une Fête au Village Nègre
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA AE-23-01
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Creator
- Neurdein frères
- Place
- Africa
- Algeria
- Topic
- Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
- Creator
- Neurdein frères
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 2: Algeria (AE)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., col., 9 x 14 cm.)
- Date
- [ca. 1905]
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA AE 1995-0023-01
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Postcards
- Collection Citation
- African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Picture postcard printed by Neurdein Frères; series 49.
- Printed text on recto reads: "49. - ORAN - Une Fête au Village Nègre. ND Phot." Translated caption reads: [ORAN - A celebration in a negro village.] General overview of the village and crowd.
- Typed text on verso reads: ''Dear Madeleine: Had a very sad homecoming having lost one of my sisters - This is where we stopped to coal up on the way home - Oran, Algiers is the name and saw some funny types of people - They sure were Arabs and the women dressed so queer - It was some sight Madeleine - Wish you had been with me - I miss you all very much and will write your mother very very soon - Am sending this in care of Mark and I hope you give me a thought occasionally as I do all of you - With love, As ever. [Signature not readable.] Madeleine I peeked in a ''harem'' - Do you know what that is ? If you don't - Mark must be able to tell you - Best wishes to Audrey: May''.
- Stamped text on verso in red ink reads: "Mark R. Byrne / "K" Comp[text not legible]."
- Hand tinted.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871087358-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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