TN 403
2 colonial postcards of Colomb-Bechar, Algeria (called Bechar post-independence). Colonial, military interest.
Price: $60.00
Algeria, Tunisia
TN 402
7 colonial postcards of Colea (Kolea), located in the northeast, was a military centre, with four forts in the area. Architectural and military interest.
Price: $210.00
TN 401
2 French postcards of El-Kantara, Algeria. The 1911 Baedeker travel guide described it as "one of the most important caravan-stations in E. Algeria."
Price: $60.00
TN 400
2 colonial postcards of Djelfa, Algeria. Colonial and arab interest. During Philippe Pétain's period, a concentration camp was placed in Djelfa.
Price: $60.00
TN 399
3 colonial postcards of Batna. Architectural, colonial and local arab interest. Some cards from the War of Independence period. The Algerian revolution started at Batna under the chairmanship of Batnéen Mustapha Benboulaïd (FLN). Batna was the first military region of Algeria (zone 1) (1954–1962). On the night of November 1, 1954, the barracks of the city of Batna were attacked by the mujahedeen. Batna was the command headquarters of the Algerian revolution until independence.
Price: $90.00
TN 398
3 colonial postcards of Bone, now known as Annaba. Algeria’s leading industrial city, it was one of the main French settlements, and it still has a sizeable minority of the "Pied-Noir". One notable pied-noir from Bône was General Alphonse Juin, a Marshal of France and then the Central European NATO Commander. Architectural interest.
Price: $90.00
TN 397
5 colonial postcards of Blida and nearby Chiffa Gorge. Architectural, colonial and local arab interest. Blida is surrounded by a wall of considerable extent, pierced by six gates, and is further defended by Port Mimieh, crowning a steep hill on the left bank of the river. The nearby Chiffa gorge is one of the few habitats of the endangered Barbary macaque.
Price: $150.00
TN 396
8 colonial postcards of Biskra. Architectural, colonial and local arab interest. A number of cards from the War of Independence period. A garrison town, Biskra was again the scene of anti-French assaults during the Algerian War of Independence where house-to-house battles cost many lives.
Price: $240.00
TN 395
6 colonial postcards of Sidi -Bel-Abbes. Colonial and arab life and architectural interest. Many cards from the period leading up to and during the war of Independence. From the 1830s until 1962 the city was closely associated with the French Foreign Legion, being the location of its basic training camp, and the headquarters of its 1st Foreign Regiment. In the 1930s much of the old city walls were demolished. Wide boulevards and squares replaced the traditional quarters, causing the town to lose much of its former character.
Price: $180.00
TN 394
2 early French postcards of Ghardaia, Algeria. Local life and architecture. In her 1963 book, La Force des choses, the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir described Ghardaïa as "a Cubist painting beautifully constructed".
Price: $60.00