Algeria, Tunisia

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16 colonial postcards of Setif. The Sétif and Guelma massacre (also called the Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata massacres or the massacres of 8 May 1945) was a series of attacks by French colonial authorities and pied-noir European settler militias on Algerian civilians in 1945 around the market town of Sétif, west of Constantine, in French Algeria. In response to French police firing on demonstrators at a protest on 8 May 1945, native Algerians rioted in the town. Others attacked French settlers (colons) in the surrounding countryside, resulting in 102 deaths. The French colonial authorities and European settlers retaliated by killing an estimated 6,000 to 45,000 Muslims in the region. Both the outbreak and the indiscriminate nature of official and settler retaliation marked a turning point in Franco-Algerian relations, leading to the Algerian War of 1954–1962.

Price: $480.00

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45 colonial postcards of smaller towns in Algeria, namely: Timimou, Tindouf, Tiaret, Tebessa, Sidi-Ferruch, Sidi-Okba, Saint-Denis-Du-Sig, Sidi-Bou-Medine, Staoueli, Relizane, Port-Say, Perregaux, Pointe Pescade Oudaghir, Ouargla, Mostaganem, Marnia, Mers-El-Kebir, Mac Mahon, La Meskiana, Lamy, Le Kreider, Guyotville, Gabes, Hammam-R’hira, In-Salah, El-Aricha, El-Golea, Djidjelli, Collo, Beni-Saf, Bou-Denib, Aumale. A number of postcards used during the Independence War period. Architectural and colonial interest mainly.

Price: $1350.00

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7 colonial postcards of Touggourt and Tenes. Touggourt is notable for its date trees. It was formerly surrounded by a moat, which the French filled up. Touggourt, as it is now spelled, became one of the initial six (1902), then four (1905) autonomous administrative districts of the Territoires du Sud, which in 1957 were first joined, then reorganized into two regular French départements. Tenes finally surrendered to the French without a fight in 1843, after which the French used it as a base to control the Chelif Valley. Colonial, local arab and architectural interest. Some cards issued shortly before or during the war of Independence.

Price: $210.00

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10 colonial postcards of Tizi-Ouzou. Tizi Ouzou was founded in 1856, after the successful expedition of France against Kabyle tribes. Islamists looted, and burned to the ground, a Pentecostal church on 9 January 2010. Colonial, military, local arab and architectural interest. Most cards issued shortly before or during the war of Independence.

Price: $300.00

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2 colonial advert cards for Algerian wine maker Seneclauze.

Price: $60.00

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4 early postcards of the Abbaye de N. D. de Staoueli.

Price: $120.00

Note: Staouëli Abbey is a former Trappist monastery located in Algeria . Created in 1843, the monastery was erected into an abbey on July 11, 1846 by Monsignor Louis-Antoine-Augustin Pavy . Charles de Foucauld resided there. The monks left it in 1904. This Trappe symbolized the presence of Christianity in Algeria for sixty years

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10 humor postcards of Moroccan life, illustrated by Chagney.

Price: $300.00

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8 colonial postcards of Tlemcen. In 1943 Tlemcen was little more than a railway halt. On January 13, 1943 a British and American train patrol engaged in a skirmish with the retreating troops of the Afrika Korps. As the US Army marched eastwards from its Moroccan landing grounds, the British 8th Army drove west, forcing the Germans into an evacuation pocket at Tunis. In the independence movements of the mid-twentieth century, it was relatively quiet, reflecting the city's sense of aloofness from the turbulence of Algiers. After Algerian independence in 1962, most of the small Jewish population evacuated to metropolitan France. The Berber tribes historically professed Judaism. During the colonial period they served in the French Army. French Jews of the Alliance Israélite Universelle paid for a local Jewish school, which closed in 1934, perhaps owing to the rise of Fascism. In 2009 Jordanian sources reported that the Algerian government intended to restore the damaged Jewish tombs at the historic cemetery.

Price: $240.00

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Place de France and HQ of the 4th Chasseurs d’Afrique in Tunis.

Price: $60.00

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Panoramic view of colonial Bizerte. Sponsored by Chocolat Pupier.

Price: $30.00