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Chabane

Date: 1930
Description: A man named Chabane is posing while sitting in front of a tent. He is wearing a work jacket and traditional headdress, with goggles pushed up on his forehe...
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Caid Kahlifa Lamin

Date: 1930
Description: Caid Kahlifa Lamin poses in front of an opening, perhaps a door, in a cement wall, covered with a cloth hanging. He is dressed in official attire and is st...
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Two Men and a Boy

Date: 1930
Description: Two indigenous men are posing for the camera in Ain Beida, Algeria. One man is holding a young boy in his left arm.
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Giant Prehistoric Ox Horns and Skull

Date: 1927
Description: A man is holding the broken end of a giant prehistoric ox horn next to the rest of the horns and partial skull to show the size. It is noted that they meas...
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Workmen at Mechta

Date: 1927
Description: Workmen excavate at an archaeological site at Mechta. M. Bebruge is the man in the foreground. A man sitting on the ground in the background on the right i...
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Seated Sheik

Date: 1930
Description: A turbanned man, identified as a Sheik, is sitting on a patterned rug on the ground in front of a doorway. He is wearing a red robe with elaborate gold tri...
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Two Families

Date: 1930
Description: A group identified by the photographer as "two couples, four kids" are posing in front of a brick dwelling. One man and woman are standing in the doorway; ...
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Sheik

Date: 1930
Description: A man wearing a turban and cape with gold trim is standing and smiling in an open doorway, with a curtain hanging behind him and a pillow in front of his f...
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Sheik Sitting

Date: 1930
Description: An man, identified only as a sheik, sitting on a patterned carpet in front of a narrow doorway. There is a large pillow behind him. He is wearing a white t...
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Men at Archaeological Dig in Algeria

Date: 11 20 1926
Description: Six people, including Alonzo Pond (standing in the hole on the right side), work at an archaeological dig site in Algeria. The diggings were worked in leve...

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