May 16th, 2013 at 6:01PM
Zorita      (aka. Katherine Boyd Petillo) Vintage press photo from 1937 features Zorita performing her “Wedding Of The Snake” act onstage, with one of her Indigo Snakes…

Zorita      (aka. Katherine Boyd Petillo)

Vintage press photo from 1937 features Zorita performing her “Wedding Of The Snake” act onstage, with one of her Indigo Snakes…

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January 2nd, 2013 at 6:01PM
Georgia Sothern      aka. “The Redheaded Bomb-Shell”.. Vintage press photo dated from 1937, features Georgia working the stage curtain of an unidentified theatre..

Georgia Sothern      aka. “The Redheaded Bomb-Shell”..

Vintage press photo dated from 1937, features Georgia working the stage curtain of an unidentified theatre..

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December 3rd, 2012 at 6:00PM
Claire Powell      Vintage portrait promo photo from 1937..

Claire Powell     

Vintage portrait promo photo from 1937..

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January 19th, 2012 at 5:11PM

bhof:

Vintage Daily News coverage of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s citywide sweep of Manhattan’s burlesque houses in April 1937. 


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December 13th, 2011 at 10:16PM
prettylovely: From an awesome LIFE photo series.. (ca. 1937) Burlesque stripper June St. Clair sexily undresses as a typical wife clumsily disrobes next to her; during a demonstration on how wives should undress in front of their husbands in the bedroom.. Lessons from a class at the Allen Gilbert School of Undressing.” (More images in the series, via How To Be A Retronaut)

prettylovely:

From an awesome LIFE photo series.. (ca. 1937)

Burlesque stripper June St. Clair sexily undresses as a typical wife clumsily disrobes next to her; during a demonstration on how wives should undress in front of their husbands in the bedroom.. Lessons from a class at the Allen Gilbert School of Undressing.”

(More images in the series, via How To Be A Retronaut)

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