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Golliwog Stage Show, 1934

10 3/8" x 13 3/8" toned silver print. The golliwogs were beloved British children book and doll figures, based on a minstrel show cakewalk dancer— like many such figures they were ambivalent, with racist overtones. The De Vigny company in Paris marketed perfume in bottles with the golliwog motif. This is a scene from a NY musical show with a lavish dance number "Les Parfume" [as stamped on the verso.] It is by Apeda, N.Y. [3+]

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