Sujet
Magic lantern slide circa 1900
Légende
Magic lantern slide circa 1900.Victorian/Edwardian.Social History.No. 20.— Camels. When a cargo of more valuable merchandise has to be transported to a distant city in the country away from railways, and involving some more or less desert route, the services of the “ ship of the desert ” are brought into requisition. This is a portion of such camel-laden caravan starting from the town, and accompanied with their attendant bournoused Arabs. The camel is not now very much used in Algiers. The railways, which are gradually being extended over Algeria and the adjacent provinces in every direction, and good military and other roads, are gradually causing the services of this useful animal to be scarcely indispensable around Algiers and other large cities ; so that probably, at no very distant future, it will be entirely supplanted by other means of transit; and so far as Algiers itself is concerned, it is likely, before long, to become as extinct as the lion now is, but which once used to roam and commit its depredations not so very far frohi the town itself.
Date
20e siècle
Crédit
Photo12/UIG/Design Pics/John Short
Notre référence
UMG20B22_404
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
62,3Mo (4,4Mo) / 39,8cm x 39,2cm / 4700 x 4634 (300dpi)