GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 7

A photographic postcard of an unidentified Guadeloupean woman in a traditional douillette dress ensemble including a madras head scarf. She is featured standing, facing slightly towards the right of the image, looking towards the camera and smiling faintly. She is wearing a long, light colored, floral print grand robe that ties around her waist. A dark colored foulard kerchief is placed over her shoulders. She stands with the skirt of her robe gathered over her right wrist, obscuring her hand. She also wears traditional gold jewelry with her ensemble including the multi-layered collier-choux necklace and chenille earrings. She wears a knotted, striped madras head scarf. [GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 7] is printed in black on the top of the postcard above the woman. On the left side of the postcard, printed sideways, [Edit. Phos. Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe)]. The back of the postcard is unused and has [CARTE POSTALE] printed in black at the top and in smaller letters printed underneath [La Correspondance au recto n'est pas acceptée par tous les Pays Etrangers. (Se renseigner à la Poste.)]. Below, are blank spaces for [CORRESPONDANCE] and [ADRESSE]. Four dark blank lines are below the Adresse. The first line begins with [M____]. Handwritten in graphite on the bottom left corner is [QAN].

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