• smoking. - Fuschia Foot
  • Her dress looks like a costume as it is the same as the girl in the background. Is she one of the "girlies" in the show? Note the silver shoes. - lsmucker2002
  • Yes, this had to be a costume. Women didn't wear short skirts or dresses. - BrattyDan
  • Nice Shoes!!! - Htide2008
  • Is he painting or drilling a peep hole? - dani & kyle

"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)

Delano, Jack,, photographer.

"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland

1941 Sept.

1 slide : color.

Notes:
 Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
 Vermont State Fair--(1941 :--Rutland, Vt.)
Fairs
Entertainers
United States--Vermont--Rutland

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-3 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33913

Call Number: LC-USF35-43

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    snoweyes, straup, rdean_b, tikiman, and 369 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. fotos-de-alejandra [deleted] (61 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Social Documentary Photography & events, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

  3. dou_ble_you (61 months ago | reply)

    I like the way this scene is observed by the photographer. He is an outsider and obviously keeps his distance but the distance is physical, not emotional.

    What also fascinates me, is the backdrop of floating letters on the stage truck 'canvas'.

  4. dou_ble_you (61 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called New Directions, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

  5. Stew Stryker (61 months ago | reply)

    I love the little kid playing nearby, unaware that these women were scorned by society.

  6. tkksummers (60 months ago | reply)

    What I find interesting is how looking at this photo, if you were not given the context, you might think it has been taken last week.
    Unlike most of the photos from this era, there clothes are more like what we where today. Leather Jacket, jeans, even the 'girls' outfit is reminiscent of somethig I could or have seen girls whearing today.

  7. jjennings405 (57 months ago | reply)

    I agree with tkksummers. When I first looked at this photo, I thought their attire was not much different from what we wear today. Even the hair. A lot a women today started wearing their hair with soft curls pulled to the side with a clip. It's funny to me how this was their "backstage" and that they probably performed just on the other side of that train car.

  8. i have a ridiculous number of cats (52 months ago | reply)

    they couldn't have been that "scorned" if they were performing at a state fair. it's not a brothel.

  9. Cassies grandma (50 months ago | reply)

    I think these are some of the same women seen in this picture.

    www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/217 9048484/in/s...

  10. Tiffany Steffanie Taylor (48 months ago | reply)

    oh good spotting, you're right, the first two from the other photo are in this one.

    The one in the middle with the pink and silver jacket intrigues me. I'd love to know her story.

  11. Pronar_Narew (44 months ago | reply)

    :]

  12. Eddie Murdock (44 months ago | reply)

    cool!

  13. dude....you (44 months ago | reply)

    interesting.......

  14. ultomatt (43 months ago | reply)

    Lovely natural color, I wonder what type of slide film was used?

  15. lovedart. (43 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Ars Amatoria, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  16. Devacer (43 months ago | reply)

    wow....u are an artist/............

  17. LoopZilla (42 months ago | reply)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Delano

  18. Juanbpn. (38 months ago | reply)

    Splendid view.Greetings.

  19. chughkamaljeet (36 months ago | reply)

    I have been a colonel in the army and I find all these pictures nostalgic, in some ways, and would like to go back to them occsionally. Beautiful collection. I would like to select some from my own collection and upload them on my portfolio. Thanx for initiating.

  20. MR.JOSEPH B. (31 months ago | reply)

    the view it's grateful

  21. Arty Smokes (deaf mute) (30 months ago | reply)

    Great.
    --
    Seen in your 1930s-40s in Color set. (?)

  22. budderflyman (29 months ago | reply)

    I saw a hoochie coochie show in 1967 at the LaPorte County Fair in Indiana...to our surprise, the girls took off ALL their clothes and did some things on stage that should have caused the show to be shut down.....but, the show went on, to our surprise.

  23. arkabaker (17 months ago | reply)

    I love how the little boy is totally ignoring everything and just playing in the dirt.

  24. haroldseifert (2 months ago | reply)

    very interesting...

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