GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 2

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A photographic postcard of an unidentified Guadeloupian woman in traditional Creole dress. She is featured from her torso up, wearing a light, patterned gown with a floral-patterned foulard shawl over her shoulders and tucked into her waist. She has on large earrings with a central cameo surrounded by a golden leaf motif and she wears a multi-layered necklace and a madras head scarf. The image fades to white toward the bottom where there is printed text, [GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 2 / 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 [Ce côté est exclusivement réservé à l'adresse]. Four dark blank lines are below, the first line begins with [M____]. Handwritten in graphite on the top right corner is [10 €].

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