Alexandre LEROUX

Photograph album – Algiers 1898, photographs taken during the Anti-Semitic Riots.
[Photographer's personal album with handwritten captions]
Unique album containing 47 original photographs printed at the time on albumen paper, in various sizes (15 x 11 cm, 15.5 x 11 cm, 11 x 7.5 cm). The majority of the photographs have the information “Phot. Leroux Alger” on the plate. Each shot, with the exception of the last thirteen, is captioned in French in pencil on the lower right corner of the album. These captions, very precise since they are dated and even sh

Photograph album – Algeria and Tunisia Album of 100 original photographs, contemporary albumen prints. 72 signed by Alexandre Leroux or Charles Albert as well as a caption, 28 unsigned. 4 photographs of Tunisia, the others representing Algeria.
Contemporary binding in half cloth and black shagreen, spine embellished with quintuple gilt fillets.
Each photograph mounted on guarded cards. Cards slightly yellowed in margins. Series of portraits and landscapes taken in Algiers, El Kantara, Biskra, Sidi Okba, Chellala, Batna, Lambaesa, Tebessa, in the Sahara desert, and in the ruins of Timgad and Tunis.