(ENTERTAINMENT VAUDEVILLE) Signed promotional portrait of P

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(ENTERTAINMENT--VAUDEVILLE.) Signed promotional portrait of Peg Leg Bates. Photograph, 10 x 8 inches; tack holes in corners, minor wear; signed "To Miss Nyerges, Wishing you all the success and happiness in the world, Sincerely, Peg Leg Bates." Salem, OR, 27 April 1931

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Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates (1907-1991) was a popular dancer and vaudeville performer in the 1930s and 1940s despite the loss of one leg in childhood. He then became the first African-American resort owner in the Catskills "Borscht Belt" circuit.