Algeria

Two beautiful cards came unexpectedly from Algeria this week.  The first shows dancers in traditional costume.  Women often wear this traditional dress, the karakou, at weddings.

The second shows El Kantara, a strategic point for the Romans at the entrance to the Sahara.  There is an old Roman bridge over the river.  It is one of the best known sites in Algeria.

This is a post for Postcard Friendship Friday hosted on Beth Niquette's blog The Best Hearts are Crunchy.

Algiers? - a mystery

Unused and undated.

....... - Assistance indigène et la Mosquée

The name of the town or city has been very carefully been scratched off this card.  On the reverse, the only printing is - Editions Photo-Africaines, 1, rue -. And again the rest has been carefully scratched off.  By searching for Editions Photo-Africanes, I found an address  in rue Feuillet, Alger, so I'm assuming that's where the card is from.  The mystery is why anyone would go to such trouble as to remove the place names.

I can't identify the view on the card so I will leave it without a location for now.