Two sailors, one in drag, sit on stage at a table, in front of very detailed scenery. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Date:
[between 1910 and 1919?]
Reference:
2043883i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Two sailors, one in drag, sit on stage at a table, in front of very detailed scenery. Photographic postcard, 191-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The man on the left has make-up, is smoking a cigar and wearing a checked suit; the man in drag sits opposite, holding an umbrella (?)

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1910 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 7.9 x 10.4 cm

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Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
One postcard in a group of half-size postcards (produced presumably in this this size for reasons of economy), showing amateur theatricals enacted by officers from the Royal Navy and players in drag. The drag and some of the settings have a distinctly Oriental feel to them, which may indicate location as Turkey or Mesopotamia (Mesopotamia being the setting of Wellcome Library no. 2043083i)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2043883i

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

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