Object Details
Creator
Lévy Fils et Cie.
Collection Citation
African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Scope and Contents
Picture postcard printed by Lévy Fils et Cie; series 6446.
Printed tex on recto reads: "6446 - SCÈNES ET TYPES - Femmes Mauresques en promenade. - LL." Translated caption reads: [SCENES AND CHARACTERS - Moorish women taking a walk.] Group of six veiled women. The first one holding a child by the hand, the second one wearing a stripped shawl, the last one walking with the help of a stick. All of them wearing baggy pants.
Same image published by Edition des Galeries de France, reproduced in: Alloula, Malek. "The Colonial Harem," Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986, chapter 2, p.8.
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Local Numbers
EEPA AE-20-26
General
Title source: Postcard caption.
Place
Africa
Algeria
Topic
Portraits
Creator
Lévy Fils et Cie.
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African Postcard Collection
African Postcard Collection / Series 2: Algeria (AE)
Extent
1 Postcard (collotype., col., 9 x 14 cm.)
Date
[ca. 1905]
Container
Volume 1
Archival Repository
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Identifier
EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA AE 1995-0020-26
Type
Archival materials
Postcards
Postcards
Collection Rights
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Genre/Form
Postcards
Collection Restrictions
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
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Record ID
ebl-1536871081657-1536871087349-5