Lot of Eight Custom Made Stereoviews -- North Africa, Camels, Desert, Arab Tents

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Lot of Eight Custom Made Stereoviews -- North Africa, Camels, Desert, Arab Tents:
$33.33

Measuring about 7\" x 3-1/2\", these eight stereoviews were all found together (in Columbia, South Carolina), and are presumed to have come from the same source, all of them showing scenes in what I believe is the Sahara or immediately sub-Saharan Africa. The subjects and photographer(s) are unidentified, and I get the impression that these were custom made souvenirs of a trip by a white couple (probably American or European) to Egypt or Sudan or whatever the location is, and that the shots could therefore represent more than one location. My guess is that they are one-of-a-kind, rather than anything that was \"published\" (although I guess a few copies might have been run off if the trip generated enough interest for the photos to be circulated among family members or fellow travelers).

I have shown them all together in the first picture, then paired them up in the remaining shots, so you can see the front and back of each one. The backs are mostly blank, but a couple of them have numbers on the back and one of the two that aren\'t mounted has a \"postcard\" blank printed on the back. You can also see that some of them have stains or scorch marks in the corners, which don\'t greatly affect the picture quality, and also some of them are chipped at the corners or edges.

I\'ll mostly let the pictures do the talking, but here are a few comments. Ignoring the order in which I positioned them in the first picture, the pictures of the paired up views run as follows:

1) A market scene of a group of men and children around a water pump. At least one man is wearing a fez, and my general impression is that this might be in Sudan or the southern Sahara or even sub-Saharan Africa.

2) With an open desert in the background, this group includes a camel, a donkey, four Bedouins or Arabs, and three white people - the lady in a safari hat or pith helmet on the camel in the background, a man standing in the foreground, and another man lying on the donkey.

3 & 4) Also located in the desert, these two shots show an encampment in the desert, with white tents in one view and the camels feeding in both views.

5) This is a similar view to # 2, but with the other man on the donkey. The same lady is on the camel in the background.

6) This might be the same lady again, this time sitting at a table with a man wearing a fez. The man standing - possibly a servant - is very dark-skinned and wearing a turban. It is unmounted, printed straight on to glossy photo paper.

7) This is a close-up of the same lady lying on the sand conversing with a native looking man who seems to be pointing at something in the sand.

8) Another unmounted view (this is the one that\'s been converted to a postcard on the back), showing a white man in a suit and pith helmet and a sharply dressed local man in a fez, both standing at the doorway to a building that features a decorative wrought iron window grille. Could be a street scene in somewhere like Cairo or Algiers. The white man, by the way, has a pair of glasses in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

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