ALGERIA - EGYPT - TUNISIA - PORTIER 1841-1910 - ALARY & - Lot 178

ALGERIA - EGYPT - TUNISIA - PORTIER 1841-1910 - ALARY & GEISER - LEROUX 1836-1912 - HÉLIOS 1832-ap.1892 - VISIT CARDS Album featuring 25 cardboard-mounted albumen prints in carte-de-visite format, including 8 by Portier, 2 by Hélios and 1 by Émile, Prod'hom, Alary & Geiser, Mouttet, Boyer, Leroux and Royer & Aufière. Neo-Gothic decoration on the first and last plates and the initials "P.S." in gilded letters. Attached are a citrate print of a group of Algerian men and a photogravure of two men in a camp by Rellio and Liorel, ca.1880. Mulatto, Moorish man in town costume, musicians, Algerian and Egyptian types, children, veiled women in architecture and carrying her child, small trades (water carrier, shoeshine boy), group portrait. Images: approx. 9 x 5.5 cm; mounts: approx. 10.5 x 6.5 cm; album: 15.7 x 11.5 cm