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51 early 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: $1530.00

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32 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: $990.00

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33 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: $990.00

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29 colonial postcards of Relizane. Mainly colonial and local interest. Some postcards issued during the war of Independence.

Price: $870.00

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36 colonial postcards of Philippeville used shortly before or during the War of Independence. Includes a series of photo postcards issued by Chocolat Pupier, as well as a series by Editions Photo-Africaines in Alger.

Price: $1080.00

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91 early colonial postcards of Philippeville. Mostly architectural. The Battle of Philippeville, also known as the Philippeville massacre or the August Offensive, was a series of raids launched on 20 August 1955 on various cities and towns of the Constantine region by FLN insurgents and armed mobs during the Algerian War between France and the Algerian rebels. The raids, which mostly took the form of ethnic riots, resulted in the massacre of several dozens of European settlers, known as pieds-Noirs. The massacres were then followed by reprisals by the French army and pied-noir vigilantes, which resulted in the death of several thousand Muslim Algerians. The events of late August 1955 in the Constantinois region are considered to be a major turning point of the Algerian War.

Price: $2730.00

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35 colonial postcards of smaller towns in Algeria: Pointe Pescade, Port-Say, Palestro, Pasteur, Port-Gueydon, Perregaux, Pointe Pescade, Rebeval, Rouiba, Rovigo. A number of postcards used during the war of Independence.

Price: $1050.00

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39 colonial postcards of smaller towns in Algeria: Ouezzan, Oued-Imbert, Ouenza, Oudaghir, Oued Amlil, Ouled Djellal, Oued-El-Alleug, Oudjda, Ouargla. A number of postcards used during the war of Independence.

Price: $1170.00

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