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A sailor holds hands with a man in elaborate drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1999? Topics: Female impersonators Description: A naval officer holds hand with a man in an exotic dancer's costume. Location unidentified. -
Actors in pantomime in Brighton: S. West playing King Robert of Remlaf and H. Taylor in drag as Queen Aggie of Remlaf. Photographic postcard.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1900 to 1999 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Amateur theatricals in Brighton. The Queen was a popular Dame figure in pantomime. Identities of cast members from pencil inscription on verso of print catalogued. Remlaf is a palindrome of Falmer,... -
Club Chesterfield Presents: Mr. Roby Landers
Collection: Ephemera Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: 1900s Topics: Clubs, Drag, Events, Female impersonators Subject: Club Chesterfielf, Roby Landers -
Henri Defreyn in drag as a geisha. Process print after G. Dupont, 19--.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1900 to 1999? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Henri Defreyn performing a parody of Sada Yacco, geisha and actress. The extremely popular Japanese entertainer Sada Yacco had toured the world 1900-1903 and caused a sensation wherever she went. S... -
John Lindstrom in drag. Photographic postcard, 19--.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1900 to 1999 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Ralph Mellor in drag. Photographic postcard by L.S. Langfier, 19--.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1900 to 1999 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Reg Wright in drag. Photographic postcard by Dyche, 19--.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1900 to 1999 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Stanley Cooke in drag as Charley's aunt. Photographic postcard, 19-- (?).
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1900 to 1999? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Publicity postcard for Stanley Cook in 'Charley's aunt', the phenomenally successful farce by Brandon Thomas, which broke all theatre records in London when, after its opening in 1893, it ran for 1... -
Men on a large stage set. Photographic postcard. 191- - 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: A beautiful large chorus group on an ambitiously painted 'neo-classical' stage set with painted pillars, curtains and flats, and a small battleship painted on the 'proscenium arch'. Ten of the perf... -
China Has High-Salaried Female Impersonator
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: May 6, 1917 Topics: Actors, Female impersonators, Footbinding, Theatre Subject: Cha Pih Yung -
The Impersonator
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Carter, Harold Date: Feb. 12, 1917 Topics: Clothing, Cowboys, Death and dying, Female impersonators, Femininities, Friends, Male impersonators, Passing (Gender), Performing arts, Prejudices, Transphobia, Violence Subject: Ethel Saunders, Harry Saunders Description: The Day Book (Chicago, IL) -
A French prisoner of war in drag acting in an internment camp in Dülmen. Photographic postcard, ca. 1917.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1917 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag. -
A man dressed in drag as a cowgirl. Photographic postcard, ca. 1915-1920.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1915? to 1920? Topics: Female impersonators Description: A humorous photograph of ca. 1915-1920 taken at the Fancy Dress Studio, Tottenham Court Road, London. A gawky and lantern-jawed 'cowgirl' in a terrible wig poses with a taxidermy horse -
Amateur actors, some in drag, pose on stage in "Gee-Whizz". Photographic postcard, 1917.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1917 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Some men in drag sit under umbrellas, on the laps of other men; as a man in drag is greeted by a gentleman with a top hat. The Europa Concert Party performing a piece entitled 'Gee Whiz'. No record... -
French or Belgian prisoners of war, one in drag, performing a scene from "L'anglais tel qu'on le parle" at Friedberg Camp, Germany. Photographic postcard, 1917.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1917 Topics: Female impersonators Description: The men, dressed as different characters, are all looking at the man in drag, who is seated at a table using a telephone. The actors are identified on verso of print catalogued. There are no furthe... -
La plus serieuse des Lorientaises
Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University Creator: Arnaud et Nozais Date: 1917 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Portly, mustachioed man dressed as a peasant woman carrying a basket and an umbrella. -
Three sailors with arms round each other. Photographic postcard, 1917.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1917 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Three sailors, the man in the centre is in drag. A Christmas party on board HMS Royal Oak, soon after she went into service at the Battle of Jutland (31 May and 1 June 1916). The ship was sunk afte... -
Two soldiers, one in drag called "Miss Billy Timmins", are seated in front of a painted backdrop. Photographic postcard, 1917.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1917 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Both gaze out, turning their heads to the side. The man wears evening attire whereas Miss Timmins appears more casually dressed. A concert party behind the lines in France, March 1917. 'The Royal B... -
Female Impersonator is Betrayed by Feet
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: Oct. 30, 1916 Topics: Clothing, Criminalization, Female impersonators, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture) Subject: Clement Sonsin -
A British prisoner-of-war at Krefeld camp, in drag, poses in character. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1914 to 1918 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Conditions at Krefeld were apparently not too tough for allied POWs if this picture is a guide. Camp entertainment was indeed just that: this very young-looking British serviceman 'Gloria', wears a... -
A convalescent soldier (Lance-Corporal R.C. Thomas) poses in drag, wearing a silk dress and sitting with a mourning veil. Photographic postcard, 1916.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1916 Topics: Female impersonators Description: "The man known as Summerdown Kate was Lance-Corporal R. C. Thomas who was at the Summerdown Convalescent Camp and a member of the camp's entertainment group (the Knuts Kamp Komedy Kompany). He was ... -
A French prisoner of war acting in an internment camp in Dülmen, performing in drag, wearing a long white dress. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1915 to 1918? Topics: Female impersonators Description: A man in drag holding a fan, leaning against a plain background. 'Richard', a French prisoner of war at Dülmen Camp in Germany, wearing a delightful and beautifully-made tiered and sequinned frock ... -
A man in drag and a man in male clothes looking into each others' eyes. Photographic postcard.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1914 to 1918? Topics: Female impersonators Description: An unmarked French-produced postcard, World War I period, showing an unidentified concert party or prisoner-of-war camp theatrical production -
Actors performing at a prisoner of war camp in Münster. Photographic postcard. 1916.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1916 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Many characters, some in drag, are in a crowded scene within the detailed domestic stage set. A melodrama being played out on the well-improvised set of the camp theatre at Münster prisoner of war ... -
Actors performing at a prisoner of war camp in Osnabrück. Photographic postcard. 1916.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1916 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Belgian prisoners of war performing at Osnabruck Camp on a real photo postcard sent back home to Liege by Lt. Jos. Frenay (presumably one of the subjects). Three of the ten characters backstage are...
