Photograph of Chickie Collins with two unidentified female performers in costume

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Chickie Collins with two unidentified female performers in costume. The woman on the far left, Chickie Collins, is depicted standing with her proper left arm raised and her proper right hand at her waist, grasping the raised, proper right wrist of the woman lying on the ground in front of her. Her head is tilted towards her proper right shoulder and she is looking upwards. She is wearing a wearing light toned, Grecian-style costume, secured at her proper right shoulder, leaving the other shoulder bare. The woman lying on the ground with her proper left arm extended towards, and clasped by, the woman standing behind her, is reclining on her proper right elbow. She is looking towards the right edge of the photograph. She is wearing a garment that leaves both shoulders bare.

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