A group of nine little people performers pose in a professional studio setting in this real photo postcard, attributed to the photographer Fryer based on the imprint visible in the lower right corner. The composition and costuming place this image firmly in the 1920s, consistent with the era's vaudeville and traveling variety entertainment circuits. The nine performers are arranged in a deliberate stage-ready grouping against a painted backdrop with a latticed window flat at left.
Two men standing at rear hold saxophones mid-play, while the central male figure in a formal black tuxedo and bow tie cradles a banjo. The women wear flapper-style drop-waist dresses with floral corsages and finger-wave hairstyles, and the smallest woman at center wears a flower wreath crown and holds hands with a young man in a bow tie suit. Tambourines are visible in the hands of performers at left.
The reverse bears a penciled inscription reading "Princess Marguerite, Born in France, age 32," identifying at least one of the adult female performers by her stage name and noting her French origin and age at the time of the photograph. A price notation of "6-" appears in the upper right corner.
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