Robert John Burck, better known as the almost Naked Cowboy street performer, is a regular at Times Square in the New York City borough of Manhattan

There actually is a Naked Cowboy variety of oysters of the sort Mr. Burck touts on his guitar. They're wild oysters harvested from Long Island Sound by the Blue Island Oyster Company.
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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.