Algeria, Tunisia

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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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An archive of 5 adverts for Seneclauze wine produced in Oran, Agleria and marketed in France. The adverts contain an array of different formats. Some showing brochures, others on the back of postcards giving prices and other data. The postcard fronts range from fantasy to local wine making to Algerian types and habits. A rare collection, spanning 60 years beginning in 1910. Also included is an ordering form.

Price: $200.00

Note: The roots of this operation begin in 1890 when Théodore Sénéclauze moved to Algeria and set up a wine business. After seven decades in Algeria, the family was forced to move and settled in Marseille in 1962.

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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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