This image is labeled by the photographer ‘Les maisons de Médenine‘ which is French for ‘houses of Medenine’. While modern Ghorfas were shown as housing for slaves in the film Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in reality these were built for storing grain, not as residences. Medenine is a town in southern Tunisia.

The photographer for this public domain image was F. Soler, a Tunisian photographer active in the late 1800s and early 1900s. His portraits and landscape images of the people and places of Tunisia are quite common, especially in post-card format, but little is known about the photographer himself.