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Life Goes To A County Fair

Alfred Eisenstaedt1938-09

LIFE Photo Collection

LIFE Photo Collection
New York City, United States

Five African-Amer. gals of the Harlem Dandys on stage w. blackface comic as white midway barker uses mike to announce their minstrel show which is not traditiona but is really more of a hot-stepping Harlem revue, at carnival in the Greenbrier Valley Fair.

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  • Title: Life Goes To A County Fair
  • Date: 1938-09
  • Location: Lewisburg, WV, US
  • Physical Dimensions: B/W PRINT
  • Subject Keywords: Carnivals, Theater, Vaudeville, People And Customs, State And County, Fairs, Us, West Virginia, Lewisburg, African Americans, 1930s
  • Publisher: TimeLife
  • Usage: For personal non-commercial use only
  • Provider: LIFE
  • Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
  • Original ID: TimeLife_image_5555947
  • Credits: LIFE
  • Copyright: © Time Inc.
LIFE Photo Collection

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