Abd el-Kader was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion in the mid-19th century and founded the Algerian state. He was An Islamic scholar and Sufi who unexpectedly found himself leading a military campaign, he built up a collection of Algerian tribesmen.....
French military photo album tracing the movement of French servicemen from infantry instruction at Saint-Maixent-l’École into North African field service during the Algerian War era, with sustained documentation of rallye exercises, convoy organization, patrol work, barracks labor, communications equipment, and winter combat preparation. The album’s training sequences include helmeted soldiers.....
American serviceman’s Sgt. T. Mansker’s photo album, compiled from experience moving between France and French colonial Algeria, circa 1942-1945, A majority of the approx. 270 photographs take place in wartime Algeria under Allied military presence in French colonial Algeria. The album centers on occupied Algerian street life, public space, transport.....
