Jeypore Zenana Carriage

Jeypore Zenana Carriage

c. 1908
Publisher No.: 
9091
13.70x
8.80cm

[Original caption] Zenana Carriage, Jeypore. This picture of the quaint and thoroughly Oriental-looking vehicle was taken in a street of Jeypore, the capital of the state of that name in Rajputana. The Zenana carriage is used by the ladies of the Zenana, a Hindustani name meaning women, and which corresponds to the harem in Arabic-speaking Moslem lands. [end]

[Verso, handwritten] "Dear Helen This isn't a proper birthday card but as I don't have one this will do to give you our heartiest wishes for many happy returns of your birthday & buy candles with the 5 dollars enclosed love to your mother + yourself from Auntie Ang xxxx xxxx."