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Actors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait as "Cheerokee Minstrels". Photographic postcard by H..E. Howorth, 1904.

Cheerokee Minstrels

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Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.

The group pose sitting down, with four men in evening dress, behind young boys sitting on the floor wearing black wigs. A troupe of entertainers including several children, at Fleetwood in Lancashire in 1904. The drag figure carries a tambourine and wears a very large bonnet

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Item Information:

Identifier
pc289j335
Collection
James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution
Wellcome Library
Date Issued
Jan. 1, 1904
Genre
Photographs
Prints
Topic(s)
Female impersonators
Resource Type
Still Image
Analog Format
1 photograph : photoprint ;
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