MR 298
Official photo album of the October 31, 1953 inauguration of a cable car in the Zat valley, near Marrakesh. It was used for the transportation of minerals. Shown are S.E. Si Hadj Thami El Glaouit, Pasha of Marrakesh; Augustin Guillaume, Resident-General of French Morocco; and Jacques Aguillon, Resident Commission General of French Morocco. 30 photos all with typed captions.
Price: $700.00
MR 297
French press photo of Cap Juby, Spanish Morocco, shortly before it was transferred to Morocco. Text on reverse.
Price: $60.00
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MR 296
23 Moroccan and Algerian humor cards by various artists: P. Neri, Oilette, Assus, Agius, Adumont, R. Jaricra, Assus, F. Nerzio.
Price: $920.00
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27 cartoon postcards by Algerian artist L. Chagny. KN
Price: $810.00
MR 294
5 artisitic postcards of Moroccans by R.Falcucci.
Price: $200.00
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MR 293
20 postcards of military hospitals, infirmaries and medical care (local and military) during the French pacification of Morocco.
Price: $600.00
MR 292
MR 292
98 military postcards from the Riff War (1912-1927) and the Zaian War (1914-1921). Many with military stamps and many with correspondence from soldiers.
Price: $2940.00
Note: The Zaian confederation of Berber tribes in Morocco fought a war of opposition against the French between 1914 and 1921. Resident-General Louis-Hubert Lyautey sought to extend French influence eastwards through the Middle Atlas mountains towards French Algeria. This was opposed by the Zaians, led by Mouha ou Hammou Zayani. The war began well for the French, who quickly took the key towns of Taza and Khénifra. Despite the loss of their base at Khénifra, 
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MR 292the Zaians inflicted heavy losses on the French. With the outbreak of the First World War, France withdrew troops for service in Europe, and they lost more than 600 in the Battle of El Herri. Over the following four years, the French retained most of their territory despite the Central Powers' intelligence and financial support to the Zaian Confederation and continual raids and skirmishes reducing scarce French manpower. After WW1, the French resumed their offensive in the Khénifra area in 1920, establishing a series of blockhouses to limit the Zaians' freedom of movement. They conducted negotiations with Hammou's sons, persuading three of them, along with many of their followers, to submit to the French rule. A split in the Zaian Confederation between those who supported submission and those still opposed led to infighting and the death of Hammou in Spring 1921. The French responded with a strong, three-pronged attack into the Middle Atlas that pacified the area. Some tribesmen, led by Moha ou Said, fled to the High Atlas and continued a guerrilla war against the French well into the 1930s.
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MR 292Sultan Yusef's reign, from 1912 to 1927, was turbulent and marked with frequent uprisings against Spain and France. The most serious of these was a Berber uprising in the Rif Mountains, led by Abd el-Krim, who managed to establish a republic in the Rif. Though this rebellion began in the Spanish-controlled area in the north, it reached the French-controlled area. A coalition of France and Spain finally defeated the rebels in 1926.
MR 291
MR 291
77 postcards of the French invasion of Morocco 1911 to the Treaty of Fez. Many with military stamps and many with correspondence from soldiers.
Price: $2310.00
Note: In 1911, a rebellion broke out against Abd al-Hafid. By early April 1911, the Sultan was besieged in his palace in Fez and the French prepared to send troops to help suppress the rebellion under the pretext of protecting European lives and property. The French dispatched a flying column at the end of April 1911. Moroccan forces besieged the French-occupied city. One month later, French forces brought the siege to an end. On 5 June 1911 the Spanish occupied Larache and Alcazaquibir (Ksar-el-Kebir). On 1 July 1911, the German gunboat Panther arrived at the port of Agadir. There was an immediate reaction from the French, supported by the British. France officially established a protectorate over Morocco with the Treaty of Fez in 1912. Within a month, on 17 April 1912, Moroccan infantrymen mutinied in the French garrison in Fez. The Moroccans were unable to take the city and were defeated by a French relief force. In late May 1912, Moroccan forces unsuccessfully attacked the enhanced French garrison at Fez. In the Battle of Sidi Bou Othman in September, 1912, the French defeated Ahmed al-Hiba and captured Marrakesh.
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MR 290
119 postcards of the French invasion of Morocco in 1907-1910. Many with military stamps and many with correspondence from soldiers.
Price: $3570.00
Note: he French military conquest of Morocco began in the aftermath of Émile Mauchamp's assassination in Marrakesh on 19 March 1907. In the French press, his death was characterized as an "unprovoked and indefensible attack from the barbarous natives of Morocco." Hubert Lyautey seized his death as a pretext to invade Oujda from the east. In the summer of 1907, tribes of the Chaouia led a revolt against the application of terms of the 1906 Treaty of Algeciras in Casablanca, killing nine European laborers working on the rail line between the port and a quarry in Roches Noires. The French responded with a naval bombardment of Casablanca from 5–7 August, and went on to occupy and "pacify" Casablanca and the Chaouia plain, marking the beginning of the French invasion from the west.
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44 colonial postcards of smaller towns and villages: Sale, Sefrou, Settat, Saffi, Sidi Yaha du Rharb, Sidi-Bou-Said, Sefssafe, Sidi-Kacem, Sidi-Aissa, Taourirt , Taroudant, Tiferlanne, Tafraout, Tadla, Tiznit, Tagadirt N’Bour, Tafilalet, Tiaret, Taourirt, Volubilis. Some issued on the eve of Independence.
Price: $1320.00
MR 288
MR 288
29 colonial postcards of smaller towns and villages: M’Coun, Medhya, Ouezzan, Oued-Zem, Oued Yquem, Port Lyautey, Rades.
Price: $870.00
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41 colonial postcards of smaller towns and villages: Khenifra, Khemisset, Kourigha, Kenitra, Ksar-Es-Souk, Le Mans, La Goulette, Martimprey-du-Kiss, Mehedya, Moul-El-Bacha, Midelt, Mechraa-Ben-Abbou, Moulay Yacoub, Mogador, Moulay Idriss, Mestigmeur, Madhouma, Missour, Mequinez, Mzab, Merada, Mahiridja.
Price: $1320.00