This photochrome print from El Cantara (present-day El Kantara), Algeria, is part of “Views of People and Sites in Algeria” from the catalog of the Detroit Publishing Company (1905). The Romans built a fortress here and their bridge still stood in the 19th century. The town is described in the 1911 edition of Baedeker’s The Mediterranean, seaports and searoutes: Handbook for Travellers as “one of the most important caravan-stations in E. Algeria,” a place that owed its prominence and fame to “the grand gorge of the Oued el-Kantara, called by the natives Fumm es-Sahara (‘Mouth of the Desert’).” The ravine depicted in the photograph “suddenly emerges from a wild Alpine region, flanked by the red limestone rocks of Jebel Gaous and Jebel Essor, into a highly picturesque palm-oasis…and careers rapidly down to the Sahara.”