Teddy Reed's Variety and Minstrel Show Bally Platform

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Remarkable candid cast portrait of "Teddy Reed's Variety and Minstrel Show" and the crowd in front of the small show taken at "Colfax-Ill[inois] annual Fall Festival-Season 1913." Cast includes black man (or possibly a white man in blackface) posing with what looks like a slice of watermelon held against his face, another smiling white man in black face, a proud-looking black woman, a serene yet serous black man with cap and kerchief, an 11-12 year old black girl with stubs for arms above the elbow, a very tall (Giant?) white man with a bowtie, and a white woman with

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