Pop-up: Carnival Cowboys

Welcome to our Pop Up Gallery. Here we curate artifacts and oddities in the Project B vintage photography collection. Featured now is: Pop-up: Carnival Cowboys

In the 1920s and ‘30s, Americans flocked to the county fair for weekend fun, including the chance to dress up as frontiersmen and cowpunchers in a Wild West setting. The photo studios and booths had elaborate sets complete with hand painted backdrops. Every moviegoer knew a classic pose, could stage a showdown for the camera and become an instant carnival cowboy (or cowgirl!).

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Cowboys at the 104 Ranch Saloon Cowboys at the 104 Ranch Saloon
Cowgirls Stick-'em-up Cowgirls Stick-'em-up
Cowboy Quartet Cowboy Quartet
Cowboys and Indian Cowboys and Indian
Cowboys at the Diamond Nick Cowboys at the Diamond Nick
Cowboys Just Wanna Have Fun Cowboys Just Wanna Have Fun
Cowgirl, Iona Grant Cowgirl, Iona Grant
Lassoed Cowboys Lassoed Cowboys
Carnival Cowboys grid

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