Biskra 1920sBiskra is a Saharan oasis in Algeria.
Biskra 1920s
Biskra is a Saharan oasis in Algeria. At the beginning of the 20th century, Biskra was an exotic winter resort for rich europeans. This is a print from a stereo glass negative made by a french tourist in the 1920s.
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char à bancs Biskra / 1920
Too fast for the camera!
A breakneck drive through the desert on a horse driven tram in the 1920s.
From a box with glass stereo negatives / Oasis Biskra, Algeria.
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Une jeune femme de la tribu des Ouled Naïl à Biskra, 1917
Galerie Verdeau
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Biskra El Kantara
Figurine visible sur l'un des arcs du pont de chemin de fer d'el Kantara, entrée de Biskra depuis Batna.
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Image Title: Biskra. [cartographic material]
Author: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section.
Scale: 1:5,700
General Note : "Copied from Les Guides bleus, Algérie, Tunisie."
LOC call no.: G8244.B622 1942.G72
more information available from Penn State University; Donald W. Hamer Maps Library
www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/maps.html
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Biskra la Poste d'El Kantara
L'un des plus anciens bureaux de postes Algérie. Edifié a la fin des années 40.
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Street Sidi Okba
BPLDC no.: 08_04_000349
Page Title: Street Sidi Okba
Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection
Album: Volume 1: Algeria.
Call no.: 4098B.104 v1 (p. 25)
Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn
Photographer:
Genre: Scrapbooks; Albumen prints
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on page : albumen ; page 33 x 39 cm.
Description: Scrapbook page contains one photograph showing a typical street scene in Sidi Okba. Adults and children wander the street or sit by its side.
Transcription:
Notes: Page description supplied by cataloger, derived from captions and/or annotated information.; Caption on image: Oasis de Sidi-Okba 1924
BPL Department: Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
The oases of Biskra and Sidi Okba. The desert
BPLDC no.: 08_04_000336
Page Title: The oases of Biskra and Sidi Okba. The desert
Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection
Album: Volume 1: Algeria.
Call no.: 4098B.104 v1 (p. 12)
Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn
Photographer:
Genre: Scrapbooks
Extent: 1 page ; 33 x 39 cm.
Description: Scrapbook page contains a geographic description of Biskra along with a description, both geographic and historical, of Sidi Okba
Transcription: Biskra. French outpost on the desert in an oasis in which grow 100,000 date palms beside several thousand fruit trees of various sorts. It is a collection of five characteristic Arab villages with a small French quarter, situated at the edge of the desert in the jaws of Aures Mts. Climate genial, vegetation beautiful. Water supplied from Oued Biskra and Artesian wells.; Sidi Okba. A poverty striken [sic] mud built Arab village about two hours drive in the desert from Biskra. Here is a rude little mosque, the oldest Mohammedan structure in Africa, adorned with ostrich eggs. In it lie the remains of the Arab conqueror Sidi Okba who after vanquishing all nothern [sic] Africa from Egypt to Tangier, drove his horse into the Atlantic and declared that only the ocean prevented him from conquering every nation which knew not God nor Mohammed.
Notes: Page description supplied by cataloger, derived from captions and/or annotated information.
BPL Department: Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
