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A man in drag singing. Photographic postcard, 193-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1930 to 1939? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
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,... -
Billie Manders in character. Photographic postcard by J.A. Harding, 193-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1930 to 1939? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Billie Manders wearing a black dress and raising the sides of his skirt. He was a popular Rhyl-based female impersonator: he and his troupe 'The Quaintesques' were concert party entertainers from t... -
Britain's Foremost Female Impersonator Jimmy Slater
Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949) Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: circa 1920 to circa 1939 Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography Subject: Jimmy Slater -
Countess Estelle as a brunette
Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection Institution: University of Washington Libraries Creator: Date: 1930 to circa 1960 Topics: Drag, Drag performers, Female impersonators Subject: Countess Estelle, Garden of Allah Description: Photograph of Countess Estelle standing in front of a curtain wearing a sleeved dress with a long pleated skirt, dangly earrings, black heels, and a dark fur piece draped around both wrists. -
Female impersonator Shuug Au Sing
Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection Institution: University of Washington Libraries Creator: Date: 1930 to 1960 Topics: Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Drag, Drag performers, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people of color, QTPOC Subject: Shuug Au Sing Description: Photograph of Shuug Au Sing in a floor length dress and large, elaborate headdress posing in front of curtains. -
Francis Russell, promotional photograph
Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection Institution: University of Washington Libraries Creator: Date: circa 1930 to 1960 Topics: Drag, Drag performers, Drag queens, Female impersonators Subject: Francis Russell Description: Promotional photograph of Francis Russell smiling in a sleeveless, black sequined mermaid dress, a layered necklace, and above the elbow, black fingerless gloves. -
German actors, some in drag, gather on stage at a party. Photographic postcard, 1930-45.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1930? to 1945? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The actors, playing a variety of characters, are drinking and in conversation on stage, with lanterns hanging from the layered stage ceiling. A German amateur theatrical (presumably military) group... -
Handbill advertising Jackie Starr's appearance at the Spinning Wheel
Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection Institution: University of Washington Libraries Creator: Date: circa 1935 Topics: Burlesque (Theater), Drag, Drag performers, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Transfeminine people Subject: Jackie Starr, Spinning Wheel, Walter Winchell Description: Handbill including a picture of Jackie Starr wearing a fur coat and hat, with Walter Winchell's endorsement of her performance at the Spinning Wheel. -
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... -
Hialeah Club: Queens are Wild
Collection: Ephemera Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Fat Jak Date: 1920? to 1940? Topics: Drag, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows Subject: Bobbi James, Buzzi, Fat Jak, Gayle Channing, Hialeah Club, Little Lil, Samantha Jones, Toni Desmond -
Hialeah Club: Queens are Wild (2)
Collection: Ephemera Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Fat Jak Date: 1920? to 1940? Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows Subject: Bobbi James, Fat Jak, Gayle Channing, Hialeah Club, Jan Ett, Little Lil, Samantha Jones, Toni Desmond -
Hialeah Club: Would You Believe...I'm a Boy!
Collection: Ephemera Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: 1920? to 1940? Topics: Dancers, Drag, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows Subject: Gayle Channing, Hialeah Club, Toni Desmond -
Jimmy Slater Presents the Super Follies
Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949) Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: 1930s Topics: Female impersonators, Photography, Theatre shows Subject: Jimmy Slater
