TN 384
26 colonial postcards of Oran. Mostly architectural interest. Some cards posted during the Independence War period.
Price: $810.00
Algeria, Tunisia
TN 383
3 colonial postcards of Sidi -Bel-Abbes. Architectural interest. From the 1830s until 1962 the city was closely associated with the French Foreign Legion, being the location of its basic training camp, and the headquarters of its 1st Foreign Regiment. In the 1930s much of the old city walls were demolished. Wide boulevards and squares replaced the traditional quarters, causing the town to lose much of its former character.
Price: $90.00
TN 382
2 colonial postcards of Souk-Ahras. During the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962), Souk Ahras housed the Ouled Bechiah Mounts as an autonomous military base of the Army of National Liberation (ALN), called "Basis of the East".
Price: $60.00
TN 381
Two colonial postcards of Saida. Modern Saïda was founded as a French military outpost in 1854 and once housed a regiment of the French Foreign Legion. Its growth was stimulated by the arrival of the Oran-Béchar (narrow-gauge) railway in 1862.
Price: $60.00
TN 380
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
TN 379
TN 379
46 colonial postcards of smaller towns in Algeria, namely: Timimou, Tindouf, Tiaret, Tebessa, Sfax, 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: $1380.00
TN 378
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
TN 377
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
TN 376
TN 376
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.
TN 375
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