Negroes playing chess Algiers Algeria – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Negroes playing chess Algiers Algeria, [ca. 1899]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/33/3326b5c40096-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Negroes playing chess Algiers Algeria, a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Negroes playing chess Algiers Algeria
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Men seated at a chessboard in Algiers are the subject of this Detroit Publishing Company view, one of many scenes of Algeria in the company's catalog. The photochrom process behind it, licensed from a Swiss firm, produced color prints by layering several stone-printed inks over a photographic image, which gives the scene a soft, hand-tinted look. Algiers had been under French colonial rule since 1830, and tourist views like this one, issued around 1899, offered American buyers a glimpse of North African daily life. The catalog's wording reflects the attitudes of its day, so the picture is best read as a record of how outside publishers chose to frame local residents.
| Created / published | [ca. 1899]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Subjects | Detroit Photographic Co. catalogue F--scenic architectural and marine views,c1899. Print no. 16429. Views of people and sites in Algeria |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,343 × 2,494 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2851_Negroes_playing_chess_A_1899.tif-05557u |
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