Michael Lehr Antiques
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Lot 2134

RPPC Ventriloquist Outdoor Stage Performance Audience Scene

Estimate: $50 - $1,000

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Real photo postcard depicting a ventriloquist performing outdoors on a raised wooden stage platform before a seated audience visible in the background among trees. The scene captures what appears to be an actual public performance at a garden party, fairground, or outdoor entertainment venue rather than a staged studio photograph. The handwritten notation on the reverse includes the phrase Woman Ventriloquist and possibly further descriptive text, suggesting the performer depicted may be female, which would make this a particularly rare document of a woman working as a ventriloquist in the early twentieth century. Outdoor performance photographs of this type offer documentary value beyond conventional promotional portraiture. Handwritten inscriptions read: Pencil notation on reverse.

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