Algeria Solimann
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA AE-20-75
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Creator
- Yad L.A. Meʼir, makhon le-omanut ha-Islam
- Place
- Africa
- Algeria
- Israel
- Topic
- Portraits
- Provenance
- Simon Ottenberg; Donation; FY 2000; EEPA 2000-007.
- Creator
- Yad L.A. Meʼir, makhon le-omanut ha-Islam
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 2: Algeria (AE)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (halftone., b&w, 15 x 10.75 cm.)
- Date
- ca. 1982
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA AE 2000-007-1078
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Postcards
- Picture 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
- Picture postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Text on recto reads: "Solimann ein verlchnidner űber dek kőnigs von Allgier 60 Weiber beltelt." Additional text on recto reads: "And Matth: Woffgnag del : in Allgeir ...."
- Printed text on verso reads: "Suleiman, a eunich in charge of the sixty wives of the king of Algiers. Engraving after a drawing of A. M. Wolfgang (1660-1736), (executed while in captivity in Algiers)." Text also provided in Hebrew.
- Additional printed text on verso reads: "[Arabic text] L. A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art [Hebrew text] / Made in Israel / 34 / [Hebrew text] © L.A.M.M.A. Jerusalem [Hebrew text]."
- Manuscript on verso reads: "30.12.82 / Dear Simon Ottenberg, I had written you some years back how much I enjoyed your book Masked Rituals of Afikpo. Can you now send me a reprint of "West African Masquerades" ETHOS v. 10 and anything else you might have written Yours Henry A." Addressed to: "Prof S Ottenberg / Anthropology / U of Washington / Seattle WA. 98187 / USA."
- Stamped text on verso reads: "Dr. H. Abramovitch / 7 Halamed Hey St. / Jerusalem 93661 Israel."
- Postmarked stamps on verso. Postmark reads: "[illegible] Jerusalem [illegible] 83."
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871087361-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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