 
<p><b>BPLDC no.: </b>08_04_000357
</p><p><b>Page Title: </b>Arcade second story of Algerian house
</p><p><b>Collection: </b>Tupper Scrapbooks Collection 
</p><p><b>Album: </b>Volume 1: Algeria.
</p><p><b>Call no.: </b>4098B.104 v1  (p. 33)
</p><p><b>Creator: </b>Tupper, William Vaughn
</p><p><b>Genre: </b>Scrapbooks; Albumen prints
</p><p><b>Extent: </b>1 photographic print mounted on page : albumen ; page 33 x 39 cm.
</p><p><b>Description: </b>Scrapbook page contains one photograph showing three Arabs sitting or standing in the second story arcade of an Algerian home. The annotation describes the layout and usage of a typical Algerian house, with additional information about Moorish architecture. 
</p><p><b>Transcription: </b>Houses. Devoid of external ornamentation with picturesque and elegant interiors. The outer door enters upon a vestibule or skiffa where the master receives his male guests. Beyond this is the open court, the oust, or patio of the Spaniards generally paved with marble or tiles. Around it is an arcade the upper story supported on pillars with horseshoe arches. The rooms off the first story are used for store rooms kitchens baths. The family live in the rooms built around the oust on the second story. The dados of rich tiles, the ceilings of carved and painted cedar the hangings of carpet make them extremely beautiful. The flat roofs with magnificent view of Bay are the nightly gathering places of the women, and so narrow were the streets, the upper stories so projecting that the women could climb from one roof to another and pay visits. During summer the oust or patio was shades &amp; covered by a curtain. Moorish architecture seems to interpret the scriptures. The "middle of the house" where our Saviour taught was, the patio, the oust (waist or middle). Jeremiah speaks of houses 'ceiled with cedar and painted with vermilllion." Did the Psalmist allude to the curtain over the oust when he spake of "spreading out the heavens like a curtain" and 3,000 persons were on the roof of the Temple of Dagon watching Sampson make sport in the court below.
</p><p><b>Notes: </b>Page description supplied by cataloger, derived from captions and/or annotated information.; Caption on image: No. 1177 Intérieur de maison mauresque (Alger) 
</p><p><b>BPL Department: </b>Print Department
</p><p><b>Rights: </b>No known restrictions.
</p><p><i>Flickr data on 2011-08-15:</i>
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<ul><li><i>Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m</i></li>
<li><i>License: CC BY 2.0</i></li>
<li><i>User: Boston Public Library BPL</i></li></ul>
<p>William Vaughn Tupper
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circa 1892 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1892-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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