Vintage Burlesque Photos
These items are from my personal collection of vintage burlesque photos and memorabilia.
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Renee D’Orsay & her parrot Mike: vintage 8x10 photo
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Roxanne: vintage 8x10 photo
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Pepper Powell: Pepper showing off a stocking backstage, as scanned from her ‘model digest’ magazine. In the 1950s many companies produced model digest magazines which claimed to be intended for art students and photographers ‘for use in studying the female form’. More likely, the production of these magazines was just a way to get around the postal regulations against mailing nude photos, unless, of course, intended for art study.
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Beverly Lane: signed, vintage 5x7 photo
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Vivienne Morgan: vintage postcard (produced in the 1950s) from the Burlesque Historical Company of Philadelphia, PA.
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Pat Morgan: vintage 8x10 photo
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Sunny ‘Don’t You’ Dare: vintage signed 5x7 photo. This photo was mounted on vintage black photo paper, which is very acidic, hence the discoloration to the photo.
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‘Frantic Francine’: vintage postcard, signed to Hirsh Cohen.
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Jeanne Adair - Miss Mystery: vintage 8x10 photo, signed to Hirsh Cohen. Jeanne and her sister Yvonne originally performed as the ‘Adair Twins’.
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Renee Villon: vintage 8x10 photo
