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Malcolm Scott in character as "Salome". Photographic postcard, 191-.
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Malcolm Scott in character as Boadicea. Photographic postcard, 191-.
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Malcolm Scott in character as a "Gibson Girl". Photographic postcard, 191-.
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McMahon and King, two actors made up as blackface minstrels, with King in drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919? Topics: Female impersonators, Minstrel music Description: King looks over his shoulder, whilst McMahon in a top hat holds out his finger, pointing. Blackface minstrels (white actors with faces blackened to represent and mock Black people) were a form of e... -
Lyell Johnson & Fred Groome, music hall performers, one in drag, pose as a bride and a clergyman. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The bride smiles and the clergyman looks somewhat surprised, looking in the direction of the viewer. Professionally produced publicity card for Lyell Johnson and Fred Groome, circa 1910. An obscure... -
Morris Harvey, H. G. Pélissier, and Lewis Sydney in "Count Hannibal". Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The actors during a scene of the play, within an elaborate stage setThey are in drag playing characters in the "potted" (condensed) 1911 play by Pelissier based on the 1901 novel Count Hannibal: a ... -
Morris Harvey and H. G. Pélissier in "Count Hannibal". Photographic postcard, 191-.
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Members of 'The Stars' concert party, two soldiers in drag and two as pierrots, pose around a bench. Photographic postcard, 1919.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1919 Topics: Female impersonators Description: According to inscription on verso of print catalogued, they are members of 'The Stars' concert party attached to the R.A.M.C. 6th Field Ambulance at Cambrai, in January 1919. The two men in drag ar... -
Jerry Joyce posing in drag. Process print, 191-.
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K. Scott-Barrie in character as "The entertainer". Photographic postcard, 191-.
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George Robey poses in character, with sunbeam eye make-up. Photographic postcard, 191-.
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K. Scott-Barrie in character as "The entertainer". Photographic postcard, 191-.
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Gus Garrick in character. Photographic postcard, 191-.
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Gus Garrick in drag as a pantomime dame. Photographic postcard, 191-.
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French prisoners of war performing "Mam'zelle Totoche" at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.