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Paris Nouveau no. 2308 (b) – Les Femmes Cocher

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www.delcampe.net (Item no. 0003269867). Click here to view source.

Les Femmes Cocher / 83

Cab Horses / 3

Picture (left): Melle. Vilain. – Paris becomes a Paradise for horses and a hell for women.

A variation of the previous card with a rather sinister caption, perhaps reflecting an awareness that some of the femmes cocher were experiencing difficulties and dropping out of the cab trade.

The repetitive poses in the horse-cab pictures show how avid the buying public was for such images and how postcard publishers could commission many photographs on a single theme in the confident expectation that all of them would sell.