Tunis-Algerien, 1861. [1861]

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Tunis-Algerien, 1861. [1861]

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German-speaking tourists presumably compiled this album of lithographs, photographs and printed matter as a souvenir of their trip to Africa in 1861; the names Hofsfrup and Hegevorn appear on some receipts. Judging from the printed matter, they made the trip in April, beginning in Tunis at the Hotel de France, and traveling generally West to Algiers, buying furs in Bône (lynx, hyena, panther and lion), paying a guide to take them to Constantine and Guelma, stopping at the occasional Caravansary or Cabanna for refreshments. The dates on the photographs and lithographs of a given location correspond to those on receipts from that location. The tourists may have purchased the images along the way as a modern traveler would purchase postcards.

1 album (photoprints, lithographs, printed matter) ; 30 x 34 cm.14 photoprints : albumen ; 19 x 25 cm.50 lithographs : 37 b&w, 13 col. ; 22.5 x 29.5 or smaller.15 items : newspaper, receipts, cards ; 47.5 x 32.5 or smaller.

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Sortière, A.

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Otth, Carl Adolf

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Walter, Henri.

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Moulin, Félix Jacques, b. 1802.

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Félix Jacques Moulin, photographer of genre subjects, nudes, landscapes, and monuments, was active in Paris in the 1850s-1870s. In 1856-1857 Moulin traveled in Algeria with the express purpose of producing a photographic oeuvre of the region. Moulin returned from Algeria with approximately 448 negatives, 300 of which he published in six volumes entitled "L'Algérie photographique (1858). He and his family printed and sold images from this group throughout the late 1850s-1860s, and they were als...