Algeria, Tunisia

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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

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9 colonial postcards of the Great Mosque and surrounding area of Kairouan.

Price: $270.00

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Six colonial humour postcards produced in Algeria.

Price: $180.00

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Two picturesque postcards of Alger from the series Cadre Style Arabe.

Price: $60.00

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16 satirical colonial postcards of arab life in Algeria, by the artist Chagny. KH

Price: $480.00

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Late 19th century patriotic Pellerin print by Imagerie d’Epinal. It shows the battle of Djebbel-Haddedah, fought in Tunisia April26, 1881. It reads “General Ritter's troops, Zouaves and Turcos, scaled part of the Djebbel-Haddedah mountains from the flanks, while artillery fire from the front cleared them of the numerous Kroumir corps occupying them. The enemy, after suffering heavy losses, was driven back into the Oued-djenan valley; among the dead were Tunisian officers and soldiers. Our losses were light, amounting to 3 men killed and 15 wounded.”

Price: $200.00

NOTE: The Imagerie d'Épinal ( Vosges ) was originally a printing house founded in 1796 by Jean-Charles Pellerin and where the first images of Épinal were engraved in series. Initially a craft, Epinal imagery gradually became a real industry. The imagery initially used an image engraved in a wooden block ( xylography ). The sheet was then printed using a hand press, called a " Gutenberg ". Then the colorist intervened: using stencils, he applied the different colors necessary to finish the work with a round brush. Around 1850 , the appearance of lithography offered greater possibilities to the artist. Nevertheless, the images of Épinal still represented only 2% of the volume of images peddled in 1860. From 1829 to 1845, the imagery celebrated the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, his family, his marshals, his armies and his victories. Under the influence of Rousseauist thought, mid- nineteenth - century society began to see children as consumers. Riddles, dolls to assemble, and soldiers entered the catalog of imagery. At the dawn of the 20th century, the production of imagery was known throughout the world. Puppets, paper theatres, constructions and then, during the First World War , military subjects were all areas where dissemination was significant.

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Late 19th/early 20th century patriotic Pellerin print by Imagerie D’Epinal. Titled Chef de File, it is about a French zouave named Kelcouen and his life as a zouve. He is transferred to Algeria. The last frame reads: “The following year, if you had been to Constantine, you could have seen the brave Zouave First Class Kelcouen, part of the flag guard of the same decorated Zouaves, for whom the old recruit would have given his last drop of blood.”

Price: $200.00

NOTE: The Imagerie d'Épinal ( Vosges ) was originally a printing house founded in 1796 by Jean-Charles Pellerin and where the first images of Épinal were engraved in series. Initially a craft, Epinal imagery gradually became a real industry. The imagery initially used an image engraved in a wooden block ( xylography ). The sheet was then printed using a hand press, called a " Gutenberg ". Then the colorist intervened: using stencils, he applied the different colors necessary to finish the work with a round brush. Around 1850 , the appearance of lithography offered greater possibilities to the artist. Nevertheless, the images of Épinal still represented only 2% of the volume of images peddled in 1860. From 1829 to 1845, the imagery celebrated the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, his family, his marshals, his armies and his victories. Under the influence of Rousseauist thought, mid- nineteenth - century society began to see children as consumers. Riddles, dolls to assemble, and soldiers entered the catalog of imagery. At the dawn of the 20th century, the production of imagery was known throughout the world. Puppets, paper theatres, constructions and then, during the First World War , military subjects were all areas where dissemination was significant.

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Grand Tourisme en Algerie et en Tunisie, by the Touring Club of France, Comite Algero-Tunisien. 40 pages, written in English, French and German.

Price: $90.00