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[WRESTLING]. VAVASSEUR, Lil’ Al. Archive of 100 portrait photographs of wrestlers. Port Allen, LA, ca. 1970s. Together, approximately 101 photographs. Includes 85 silver prints (8 x 10”); and 16 color prints on Kodak watermarked paper (5 x 3 ½”). Generally with multiple different Lil Al’s hand-stamps on versos in addition to an identification of the subject and/or a credit in the negative. Wrestlers depicted include Jimmy Valiant, Hurricane Rivera, The Alaskan, Inca Peru, Ramon Torres, Rip Tyler, Prince Tonga, Les Thatcher, Alex the Butcher, Bull Ramos, Duke Meyers, The Garvin Brothers, Suni War Cloud, Bobo Johnson, Little Tokyo, Tom Jones, Farmer Pete, and others. Portraits of men and women wrestlers, little people, and various ethnicities represented. Condition generally very good; a minority with edge tears and creases.