Woman with snake at sideshow, Michigan State Fair
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Description
View of a woman, wearing a leotard with a snake draped around her neck and holding an umbrella, on stage at Michigan State Fair sideshow. Printed on banner in background: "Hell's belles strange." Signs on stage read: "Showing Today! National Examiner. She Lives. Color TV radiation turns girl into monster" and "Midnight, should medics allow birth of badly deformed babies? Mom refuses to call doctor."
Details
- Creator:
- Rauhauser, Bill, 1918-
- Resource ID:
- bh007858
- Subject:
- Michigan State Fair
- Freak shows--Michigan--Detroit
- Snakes--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photography--Negatives
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 negative : 35 mm. ; 1.5 x 1.5 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Collection:
- Bill and Doris Rauhauser Photography Archive
- Negative Number:
- RPT 5B_132
- Restrictions:
- Use of images from the Bill and Doris Rauhauser Photography Archive is limited to a lifetime total of three images per user. None may be used as a publication cover. Additional usage is possible with prior written approval from the Trustee of the Rauhauser Photographic Trust.
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.