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Billy DeFrank singing as a female impersonator to a crowd of African American men and women. He is sitting on the lap of an African American male, and he is wearing a blonde wig, a tight-fitting evening gown, and elbow length white gloves. The crowd is laughing. Written on recto: "Ted Sahl (C) Billy DeFrank entertaining circa" Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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