A Showgirl at the Moulin Rouge Swimming Pool

Erica Vital-Lazare
"A Showgirl at the Moulin Rouge Swimming Pool"
2021, May 22, 1955
Exhibition photograph with brown paper bag matting.
Original photograph credit: Nevada State Museum, Jay Florian Mitchell Collection, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections & Archives
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
2022.06

Image description:
A black and white photograph of a smiling Black woman posing on the diving board of a swimming pool. Tables and chairs shaded with fringed umbrellas stand near the edge of the pool behind her. Beyond the tables there is a large, low-set building fronted with floor-to-ceiling windows.