Silas Green Show Poster and Mules

In this 1935 Walker Evans photo, a mule cart stands in front of a wall in Greensboro, Hale County. Silas Green from New Orleans was an African American-owned traveling variety show and circus that appeared in numerous town throughout the South between 1904 and 1957.

Poster for the Silas Green traveling variety show with mules
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

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Poster for the Silas Green traveling variety show with mules