Scenes and Types – Young Moorish Woman – North Africa – L.L.

Antique colorized photographic postcard from the Scènes et Types (Scenes and Types) series, captioned "Jeune Mauresque" (Young Moorish Woman) and bearing the L.L. mark. An adult woman is depicted in front of striped fabrics, in a colonial-era ethnographic staging.

Card written but not stamped. Poor condition: significant abrasion with loss of image on the left edge, horizontal crease, stains, and edge wear. Attribution to Algeria is probable, to be confirmed.

Characteristics

• Type: Antique postcard (CPA)
• Period: 1904-1918
• Circulated: No
• Written: Yes
• Stamped: No
• Condition: Poor
• Publisher: L.L.