306 - MARTINIQUE - Yon ti ma coumè zébage

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A photographic postcard of an unidentified girl from Martinique in a white dress, dark boots, a madras headscarf, and a large pendant on a chain around her neck. She is a greens vendor and is holding a wicker basket filled with leaves over her left arm. She is standing inside a room with an ornamental carpet. There is a white border on the horizontal edges of the image and on left printed [306 - MARTINIQUE - Yon ti ma coumè zébage]. The back of the postcard is blank except for two handwritten notes on the bottom upside down, [2806] and [Martiniq]. In the center, printed vertically, [Collection Benoit-Jeannette -- Reprod. interdite]. On the right of the card, there are four horizontal lines.

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