Two actors pose on stage: a man wearing top hat and tails gazes down at a man in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Date:: [between 1920 and 1929?]

Reference:: 2043458i

Part of:: The James Gardiner Collection.

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Two actors pose on stage: a man wearing top hat and tails gazes down at a man in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The man in drag is seated wearing white, and the man in the top hat wears a monocle and tilts the seated man's head upwards.

Publication/Creation

[London] : [publisher not identified], [between 1920 and 1929?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.8 x 13.8 cm

Contributors

Gardiner, Jamesformer owner

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Amateur theatricals in South London, [from an inscription on the verso] mid-1920s. The ‘lady’ sports fashionably shingled hair and a ‘headache band’ bandeau worn low on the forehead with a short aigrette."

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Wellcome Collection 2043458i

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Female impersonators

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Military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag
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