ALGÉRIE - Coiffure Oranaise

Front Text - 242.Collection Idéale P.S.;Text on the back -Carte Postale:Correspondance - Adresse Tous les pays étrangers n'acceptent pas la correspondance au recto, se renseigner à la Poste.;Back Printed Text Translation - Postcard:Correspondence - Address Not all the foreign countries accept the correspondence on the front, get informations in the post office.;Production period - before 1905;Front Handwritten Text - Coiffure Juive;Front Handwritten Text Translation - Jewish hairstyle;Front Period - beginning of the 20th century;Category - Jewish types;Description - This vertical postcard depicts a photograph of a Jewish young woman from Oran. She is festively and traditionally dressed with a lace blouse under an embroidered bolero. She wears a typical Oranian hairstyle constituted of a conical hat (generally called qufiya) adorned with a sash and a diadem (a kind of crown). She also wears a lot of jewels, such as coins, necklace, bracelets, and rings. [S.H];Back Handwritten Text - Souvenir;Stamp Place on postcard - Upper left;Stamp Origin - French Republic (Republic);Post office marks Origin - Algeria (Country), Oran (City), Sidi bel-Abbès (City);Post office marks Languages Of Text - French