Ɵ Vast album of original photographs and post-cards [mostly Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, c. 1908]

Ɵ Vast album of original photographs and post-cards, depicting a single journey across North Africa [North Africa (mostly Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria), c. 1908]single large album, containing approximately 500 photographs and post-cards on 100 album-pages, many pictures a little faded, some of the post-cards with early hand-colouring, manuscript captions to many album-pages, some manuscript notes loosely inserted (possibly from a different voyage), album 280 by 385 mm. (and depth 120 mm.)The photographic ephemera compiled here begins in Southampton on the 4th March 1908 and then travels on to Gibraltar, Algiers, Chiffa, Blida, Biskra, Sidi-Okba, El-Kantara, Constantine, Carthage, El-Djem, Kairouan, Sousse, and finally Marseille. The voyage appears to be personal in nature with the "Bowen" family pictured sitting amongst local Arab communities and riding camels with "friendly Arabs" in the desert.