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Arab Dancing Girls, Algiers, Algeria

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Arab Dancing Girls, Algiers, Algeria
This photochrome print of women dancing on the terrace 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 1911 edition of Baedeker’s The Mediterranean, seaports and searoutes: Handbook for Travellers described the old city of Algiers as presenting “a highly attractive picture of Oriental life, though partly inhabited by Maltese and Spaniards as well as by Mohammedans of various races and creeds.” Arabs were the dominant group in the population, then as now, but many of the people were Berbers or from other Mahgribi population groups.

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