Algeria, Tunisia

TN 358

Late 19th/early 20th century Pellerin print by Imagerie D’Epinal. Titled Histoire de Madame Barbe-Bleue. It takes place in Tunisia.

Price: $70.00

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.

TN 357

Late 19th/early 20th century Pellerin print by Imagerie D’Epinal. Titled Madame Angot, la Reine des Balles. It takes place in Algeria.

Price: $70.00

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.

TN 356

Late 19th/early 20th century Pellerin print by Imagerie D’Epinal. Titled Histoire du Petit Negre Moricot. It takes place in Tunisia.

Price: $70.00

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.

TN 354

2 french military press photos of Tunisia, 1958.

Price: $80.00

TN 221

12 colonial postcards of Algerina types.

Price: $360.00

TN 212

3 postcards written by a gentleman in Souk-Ahras, Algeria to a woman named Eugene.

Price: $180.00

TN 211

6 postcards written by a gentleman in Algeria to a Mademoiselle Hallot in France, between 1912-1927.

Price: $120.00

WW 736

North African POW’s in WW1.

Price: $30.00

TN 206

1961 French press photo of the promotion of Ahmed Rafa to the rank of brigadier general. He was the first Muslim from Algeria to be a general officer in the French army.

Price: $60.00

TN 205

Log book kept by a gendarme based in Constantine, Algeria from 1915-1918. His name was Francois Berluet. The log book records the exercises he took in understanding Algerian law as relates to his job……working women and infants, automobile circulation, wine, espionage, regulating native inhabitants, fining native inhabitants, drunkenness, Much on the instructions for gendarme behavior. For example, working on foot, working with and without firearms. Also numerous notes he made when dealing with disturbances. For instance, reporting on an indigenous drunk in the railroad station, problem with a bicycle, problem of circulation, an accident, problem with a car without a roadmap, prostitution, etc, etc. This is both a record of everything a gendarme would need to know in order to do his job, as well as a record of a number of police reports.

Price: $4000.00