Ladies of the night: Black and white pictures of 1930s reveal the exciting world of contortionists,

[Jazzy]

Leslie Jones never called himself a photographer, preferring instead the more blue-collar title of 'camera man,' but the images he collected would be the envy of any shutterbug.



The Brooklyn Public Library are now preserving a collection of almost 40,000 negatives donated by Jones' family of the artist's stunning documentation of life in Boston.



The images are especially notable for a section on women in the 1930s.



Jones captured dancing girls, contortionists, strippers, and go-go-girls on the job and at home.



The bevy of beauties performed at Boston's hottest nightspots in their heyday.

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OMG! Hurts just to look at the contortionists! Awesome pictures!

 

[Evil Eye]

o.o Very flexible indeed.

 

[Jazzy]

I'm surprised the first one didn't fall off that stool!

 

[Evil Eye]

I was wondering if she was any good at playing that way