No. 6 of 200 · Famous Cities
Algiers and Its Bay
Pictures by Photoglob Co. and Braun & Hogenberg
Green hills and dark cypresses fall away to the white city of Algiers curving around its long blue bay, in a hand-coloured photochrom from about 1895 by the Photoglob Co. Algiers is known as Alger la Blanche, the White City, for its whitewashed houses rising in tiers from the sea to the old hilltop kasbah. For a traveler, or anyone who loves faraway cities.
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Algiers · Photochrom / Algiers and Its Bay / Photochrom, Photoglob Co., c. 1895 / Green hills fall away to the white city curving around its long blue bay. Algiers is often called Alger la Blanche, the White City, for its whitewashed houses that rise in tiers from the sea toward the old hilltop kasbah.
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