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Summer 1939. Traveling carnival at Bozeman, Montana. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.
This is what carnies call a "pit show." The attraction (maybe a giant snake, "wild man" geek, or freak animal) is at ground level. Customers pay, climb stairs out of frame to right, pass along the platform to gaze down at the attraction, and can be seen exiting to left.
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