This photochrome print of three young women in the interior of a home in Algiers is part of “Views of People and Sites in Algeria” from the catalog of the Detroit Publishing Company (1905). The women in the photograph are identified as Moors, a name that refers to the medieval Muslim inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula as well as the Maghreb (including Algeria) and western Africa, but that in Europe often was used more generally to refer to anyone of Arab descent. The Casbah of Algiers was described in the 1911 edition of Baedeker’s The Mediterranean, seaports and sea routes: Handbook for Travellers as presenting “a highly attractive picture of Oriental life.” Its narrow streets and passages were largely deserted in the daytime. “Most of the streets,” said Baedeker, “are shrouded in silence, while their bare, almost windowless walls and their closed doors, marked with the sign of the warning hand, enhance their impenetrable mystery.” The appeal of such a print to Western audiences is evident in its sense of foreign exoticism, of an unknowable but interesting other way of life, and in the fine textiles and unfamiliar decor.