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  1. Gene Avery, Dale Roberts, and Unknown in Jewel Box Revue Costume

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography, Theatre shows
    Subject: Dale Roberts, Gene Avery, Jewel Box Revue
  2. George Coutts in drag. Photographic postcard, 194-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1940 to 1949?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  3. George Harris in drag as a young woman. Photograph, 1946.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1946
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: He wears a beaded hairband and a low cut dress, posing in profile with dark curly hair
  4. George Lashwood in drag performing a song about two lovers at twilight. Photographic postcard, 190-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1900 to 1909
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Popular music-hall songs were often publicised on postcards which featured the lyrics with some illustration, either artist drawn or photographic. This unusual card presents a combination of both, ...
  5. George Robey in character. Photographic postcard by Foulsham & Banfield, ca. 1905-1910.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1900 to 1909?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  6. George Robey in drag. Photographic postcard, 190-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1905 to 1907
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  7. George Robey poses in character, with sunbeam eye make-up. Photographic postcard, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  8. George Scholey in drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1912 to circa 1914
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  9. 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...
  10. German prisoners of war, one in drag, propose a toast during a performance at Leigh prisoner of war camp, Lancashire. Photographic postcard by H. Attenborough, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: The man in drag is hoisted up in the centre of the stage, as lots of male characters lift their tankards. At the start of 1914 the Lilford Weaving Company began building a new mill in Leigh, Lancas...
  11. German soldiers, some in drag, pose round a table at a concert party. Photographic postcard, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag.
  12. "Gimme" a Little Kiss Will "Ya" Huh?

     
    Collection: Sheet Music
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Turk, Roy, Smith, Jack, Pinkard, Maceo
    Date: 1926
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Musical theatre
    Subject: Bert Errol, Jolly Chas. W. Schaffer
  13. Gita Gilmore, Doc Brenner, Danny Brown and Paris DeLaire with a group of men and women, Jewel Box Revue

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1946
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag performers, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Danny Brown, Doc Brenner, Gita Gilmore, Jewel Box Revue, Paris DeLaire
    Description: Photograph of Gita Gilmore, Doc Brenner, Danny Brown and Paris Delare posing for a group photo with five performers in elaborate satin and accessorized outfits with headpieces. A few are seated on ...
  14. Gita Gilmore dressed as a young girl, sitting on a small chair and reading to a stuffed dog

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1940
    Topics: Drag, Drag performers, Drag queens, Female impersonators
    Subject: Garden of Allah, Gita Gilmore
    Description: Photograph of Gita Gilmore dressed as a young girl, sitting on a small chair and reading to a stuffed dog as part of "Baby Snooks" routine at the Garden of Allah. Handwritten in the top left corner...
  15. Gita Gilmore, promotional photograph

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1950
    Topics: Drag, Drag performers, Female impersonators
    Subject: Gita Gilmore
    Description: Promotional Photograph of Gita Gilmore, an original member of the Jewel Box Revue, posing and sitting in a long black off the shoulder dress, many pieces of large jewelry, and an elaborate black ha...