What is the date of this photograph of a woman riding a horse sidesaddle?

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I think you are looking for Siegbert Salomon Prawer who was a professor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegbert_Salomon_Prawer

His sister Ruth Prawer Jhabvala moved from India to Manhattan in 1975 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/9970277/Ruth-Prawer-Jhabvala.html)

I hope it helps

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I remember those days myself, as a child, in the early 1960s, for Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, where I then lived. Long story short, people didn't "abbreviate" a five digit code to two digits. They expanded a two digit code to five. (It has since been expanded to nine.)

The (last) two digits first referred to the postal zone codes inside major cities.

Then they created the five digit code by adding three digits in front to provide more "granularity." Each digit subdivided a region into ten parts. For instance, the first digit subdivided the whole United States into ten parts, with an "0" in the first digit covering New England and New Jersey, while "9" refers to California and the west coast. The other eight digits divided the country into ten parts. New York state and Pennyslvania might be presented by a "1."

Each of these ten parts would then be subdivided into ten parts by the second digit. For instance, "10" in the first two digits might refer to Manhattan, while "11 in the first two digits referred to an "outer" boroughs such as Queens.

The third digit would subdivide the zones further, so "100" might refer to "downtown" Manhattan.

Finally, the last two digits referred to the existing postal zones in use within each city or suburban area. In most cases, the city and state , e.g. Minneapolis, MN would define the first three digits, and it was just a matter of finding the remaining two-digit zone within each city (or suburban or rural) area.

The "fly in the ointment" was that some cities, e.g. NYC, had more than one "third" digit, so the zones were not enough to be clearly identifiable in a situation where NYC could be represented by both "100" (e.g. Manhattan) and "101" (Brooklyn-Queens). So if you wrote "New York, New York 16, the letter could end up in either place (10016 or 10116). That's why, after a brief experiment with two digit zone numbers, people were taught to use the whole five digit zip code.

As another poster pointed out, the zip code started in 1963 when the five digit zip code replaced the two digit city zone. I still remember television commercials from the mid to late 1960s explaining the information presented above.

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ZIP codes were introduced in 1963, and ZIP is an acronym for "Zone Improvement Plan." ZIP codes were to be an improvement on "postal zones". Thus before ZIP codes existed one would write:

John Xmith
3001 Zarthan Avenue
Minneapolis 16, Minnesota

The number 16 was the zone number; this address was in postal zone 16 within the city of Minneapolis. This number followed the name of the city and preceded the name of the state, and was not used in small towns having only one post office.

When ZIP codes were introduced, in most cases the zone number became the last two digits of the ZIP code. Thus the address above became this:

John Xmith
3001 Zarthan Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55416

(If I'm not mistaken, in 1963, the Postmaster General was a member of the president's cabinet, heading the "Department of the Post Office". He was one of two cabinet members who headed the Department of Something but who were not called the Secretary of Something, but instead the Something(else) General. The other one still exists: the head of the Department of Justice is not called the Secretary of Justice, but the Attorney General.)

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