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Postcard 1900s Bizerte Tunisia Mosquée des Andalous LL Publisher Pre-Linen
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Pre-linen · 1906

Postcard 1900s Bizerte Tunisia Mosquée des Andalous LL Publisher Pre-Linen

Bizerte, Tunisia1906Pre-linenGood

A donkey cart rattles past the square minaret of the Mosquée des Andalous in Bizerte, Tunisia — a rare street-level glimpse of the old medina before the First World War, when French colonial photographers were just beginning to document North Africa's ancient urban fabric. Published by the celebrated Parisian firm Lévy & Fils (the "LL" imprint), this evocative black-and-white photographic card captures a turbaned pedestrian and a jacketed cart driver sharing a sunbaked lane beside whitewashed walls and a graceful horseshoe arch. The mosque itself, founded by Andalusian refugees expelled from Spain, gives the scene its deeper resonance — layers of Moorish heritage embedded in a Tunisian port city that would later become a pivotal WWII battleground. The card stock is undivided-back era transitioning to divided, consistent with Lévy's early 1900s production run. Unused, clean, and sharp.

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PC-01518 · Lévy Fils & Cie, Paris (LL)
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