This photochrome print of two 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 term that refers to people of mixed Arab and Berber descent who inhabit the coastal regions of northwestern Africa, including Algeria. 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.