The harim and the purdah; studies of Oriental women
The Harim and the Purdah is a 1916 New York book of studies of Oriental women by Elizabeth Cooper, published by The Century Co. for a general readership interested in life in Asia. Its photographs are plain documentary plates, each captioned under a pale mount, showing groups of women in traditional dress outdoors, arranged in rows and posed for the camera, which a designer could use as period reference for costume, textile patterns and group composition.
