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Dancers photographed from above with a Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972. See more photos here.
(Co Rentmeester—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Latin Quarter Showgirls in NYC photographed by Peter Basch c.1950s
Showgirl gets ready for the Folies Bergere show at the Hotel Tropicana, Las Vegas,1969
Parisian Latin Quarter chorus girls photographed by Peter Basch c. 1950s
The juke joints of the rural south featured blues and dancing and catered to the working class. Typically constructed with unfurnished walls and roofed with tin, they were usually open late at night and on weekends when patrons were likely to have spending money.
Leon James and Willa Mae Ricker demonstrate the Lindy Hop, 1942.
The Earl Carroll Vanities Burlesque show dancers backstage c. 1940’s
The Earl Carroll Vanities Burlesque show dancers backstage c. 1940’s
Marina Baydarova watching Tania Baydarova put on make-up. Paris, France 1949
Showgirls between shows at Latin Quarter Nightclub, photographed by Gordon Parks, 1958
Vaudeville Princesses | 1921
Unidentified African American vaudevillian actresses that performed in a Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle theatrical production, 1921. Courtesy of The Nite Tripper via Flickr.
