Algeria - Fort Flatters. Old Arab and his fourteen year old wife – Vintage Wall Art
![Algeria - Fort Flatters. Old Arab and his fourteen year old wife, [ca. 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f8/f8a19a177706-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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Algeria - Fort Flatters. Old Arab and his fourteen year old wife comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Algeria - Fort Flatters. Old Arab and his fourteen year old wife
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Taken at Fort Flatters, a French military post in the Algerian Sahara, this portrait shows an elderly man posed with his fourteen-year-old wife, a pairing the original title presents with the blunt language of its era. The photograph was made by Capt. Merl LaVoy of Seattle for the American Red Cross, which was active across North Africa and the Near East after the First World War. It later entered the collection of Frank and Frances Carpenter, the American travel writers whose work documented everyday life in distant lands for American readers. The image is valued today as a record of how outside observers framed the people they photographed.
| Created / published | [ca. 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1920.Portrait photographs 1920.Photographic prints 1920. |
| Notes | Photograph by Capt. Merl LaVoy, Seattle, for the American Red Cross. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. |
| Subjects | Spouses--Algeria--1920. Children & adults--Algeria--1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,071 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164345 |
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