Presenting historical images that celebrate the Golden Age of Burlesque and Striptease..
Chloe Carter aka. “The Fig Leaf Girl”..
Blaze Starr (aka. Fannie Belle Fleming)
More photos of Blaze can be found here..
Betty Miller
Vintage 50’s-era photograph features a quartet of showgirls posing Backstage, at an unidentified nightclub or theatre..
Dorothy Haller
This 5’6” girl from Minneapolis was a child actor on radio, as a 5 year-old. In her teens, she caught a strip show featuring Carrie Finnell; and decided to pursue a burlesque career.. She became a sensation at Chicago’s famed ‘Silver Frolics’ nightclub when a fellow dancer dared her to smoke the cigars onstage, that she’d been enjoying backstage. Dorothy wore a feathered bowler hat in her routine, and ended each performance by handing her cigar to a lucky audience member..
Anita Ventura
Adele Latour
Cover design to the souvenir program from the 1957-edition of the famous ‘LIDO’ burlesque show; located on the Champs-Elysées, in Paris..
