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Photo caption: Backstage at the ‘girlie show.’ Vermont State Fair, Rutland, September 1941. [Jack Delano photo]
The term “girlie show” is generally understood to involve nude or semi-nude women performing onstage, but standards of decorum for these sorts of things varied from place to place.
American artist Edward Hopper’s controversial painting Girli…
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