Digital Transgender Archive
An man in drag is wearing a revealing dress and holding a staff, posing with his other hand on his hip. Photographic postcard, 1909.
An unidentified man wears a large hat and appears to be standing on a rug with plants either side. He wears elaborate theatrical drag, in which the draped frock is daringly (for the time) slashed to thigh level to show off a beribboned garter. This detail, together with the enormous hat and tall jewelled cane, suggest that he may be dressed as a 'meneuse', a glamourous hostess introducing the acts in a French revue or circus
Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag.
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- Identifier
- dv13zt51x
- Collection
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James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
- Institution
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Wellcome Library
- Date Issued
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Jan. 1, 1909
- Genre
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Photographs
Prints
- Topic(s)
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Female impersonators
- Resource Type
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Still Image
- Analog Format
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1 photograph : photoprint ;
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Copyright undetermined
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