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A man wearing a white dress sits playing the piano. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929 Topics: Female impersonators Description: A man in extremely effective and rather sinister drag sits at a piano. The short hair and dark lipstick would indicate mid-1920s. He is sitting side-on with most of his back to the viewer. Fabric f... -
A performer in drag, wearing a black dress and tiara, leaning on a chair. Photographic postcard by W. Aspden, 1924.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1924 Topics: Female impersonators Description: He is glancing at the viewer with his body side-on, possibly in a dressing room. 'Bobbie' in comedy drag at Bangor in 1924, photographed by W. Aspden. One of the many drag acts that enjoyed increas... -
A young man in drag poses in a flowery dress. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Actors, one in drag, performing "The man From Toronto", pose on set for a group portrait. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Actors posing for an apparent publicity shot. Members of the popular touring Denville Stock Company in a production shot for 'The man from Toronto', a popular comedy in three acts by Douglas Murray... -
Actors, some in drag, pose for Ernie Payne and Bennie Browne's "New Signals" revuette. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The group pose sitting down, in a line, with men in evening dress alternating with men in drag. A semi-amateur revue in the mid-1920s. The three drags are wearing short flapper costumes, including ... -
Alfred Wellesley in drag as Mrs Sinbad. Photographic postcard, 192- (?).
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Amateur actors, some in drag, are having tea on stage. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The stage set furnishing is very detailed. Amateur theatricals in England, 1920s. The central figure pouring tea is a man in drag, but the other female roles are played by women -
Amateur actors, some in drag, gather for a group portrait, in a room with a fireplace. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag. -
An actor in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
An amateur actor in drag, posing as as 'Ninon', wearing a white dress and hat. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag. -
Billie Manders in character. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Billie Manders in character. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Billie Manders in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Eleven men on a large stage set. Photographic postcard. 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: A mixed drag and uniform group on an elaborately (if poorly) painted 'neo-classical' stage set with painted pillars, curtains and flats, and a small battleship painted on the 'proscenium arch'. Fiv... -
Fred Spencer in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Fred Spencer in male dress smoking a pipe. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929 Topics: Female impersonators, Pipe smoking Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Harry Gordon in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
"Jack P." in drag, wearing a white hat. Photographic print, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Jimmie Slater in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Nine men dressed up on deck. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag. -
People gathered outside a building wearing various costumes, some in drag. Photographic postcard, 1924.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1924 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag. -
Ralph Mellor in drag and a young actress stand back-to-back on stage. Photographic postcard by L.S. Langfier, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Ralph Mellor in drag and another actor perform a scene in Trilby. Photographic postcard by L.S. Langfier, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Ralph Mellor in drag and another actor perform a scene in Trilby. Photographic postcard by L.S. Langfier, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: One of the actors is in drag looking at the viewer with his arms stretched forwards; another man wearing a false beard has his hand above the head of the man in drag. The Scottish comedian Ralph Me... -
Ralph Mellor in drag and another actor perform a scene in Trilby. Photographic postcard by L.S. Langfier, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Ralph Mellor in drag looking at another man wearing a false beard; who holds his hand above the head of the man in drag. They are apparently performing a skit on the 1895 novel and play 'Trilby' by... -
Ralph Mellor in drag. Coloured photographic postcard by L.S. Langfier, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Ralph Mellor in drag. Photographic postcard by L.S. Langfier, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The Scottish comic actor Ralph Meller (or Mellor) in an unidentified pantomime role. He is in drag standing next to a young girl, holding her hand; both wear matching white costumes -
Ralph Mellor in drag. Photographic postcard by L.S. Langfier, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Roy and Gus, two music-hall actors, one in drag, converse across a bench. Photographic postcard by Greenfield Bros, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929 Topics: Female impersonators Description: The man in drag is offering a smartly dressed man a flower, while sitting on the small bench, in front of a plain background. 'Roy & Gus', unidentified performers photographed by Greenfield Bros., ... -
Sailors, some in drag, pose as three couples on the deck of a ship. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The couples are all hugging; one man is dressed as a sailor with clown make-up. Fun and games on board ship. Improvised drag on board ship, used with partial naval uniform -
"The Hassans" in character, performing on stage. Photographic print, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Tom Delaware in character. Photographic postcard by Fielding, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Tom Delaware in drag. Photographic postcard by Fielding, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Tom Delaware in Spanish dancer style character drag. He wears a large black hat and has styled blonde hair; gazing upwards beyond the viewer. A typical touring act that might have appeared in any o... -
Two actors pose on stage: a man wearing top hat and tails gazes down at a man in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The man in drag is seated wearing white, and the man in the top hat wears a monocle and tilts the seated man's head upwards. Amateur theatricals in South London (judging from an inscription on the ... -
Two members of the Quaintesques pose in front of a poster advertising Billie Manders. Photograph, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Two men in elaborate drag. Photographic postcard. 192--.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Two men in elaborate drag dressed for an occasion. Head and shoulders portrait of two men in elaborate period costume (although quite which period is a mystery). Lots of wig and make-up, and the wa... -
Two young men, one in drag, playing rag and bone men. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Two unidentified young lads dressed up in comedy fancy dress in the 1920s at an unidentified British location. They are playing a rag and bone merchant and his wife.The young man on the left has a ... -
Willie Manders and Frank A. Terry, in character; posing back to back. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Foster and Ninon in character, having a conversation. Photographic postcard, 192- (?).
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1918 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Reg Stone wearing smart men's attire. Process print, 1923.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1923 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
A comedy wedding with the bride in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1922.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1922 Topics: Female impersonators Description: A clown, sailor, the groom, bride and another character in drag. The cap tally on the only man in uniform in this group names the Royal Naval Division, which was disbanded in 1919. However, the sup... -
Bert Errol, in character, wearing a shiny black dress. Process print, 1922.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1922 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Bert Errol, in drag, dressed as a bride. Photographic postcard by Apeda, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1925? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
An actor in drag, poses mid-dance, wearing a feathered head garment and a tassled dress. Photographic postcard, 1921.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1921 Topics: Female impersonators Description: He stands on an animal-skin rug in front of decorative fabric. Stan Bennett in 'Splinters', dressed in an exotic outfit influenced by the silent-screen vamp Theda Bara. Stan Bennett was one of the ... -
An actor in drag wearing a light dress and styled hair, poses in front of a black background. Photographic postcard by Vernon Studio, 1921.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1921 Topics: Female impersonators Description: The man in drag (Stan Bennett?) gazes at the viewer and points his toes to the ground with his left foot. The card is autographed by Stan Bennett, one of the original members of the 'Splinters' tro... -
Andy Paterson in drag. Photographic postcard, 1921.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1921 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Chris Bennett in drag sits on stage, wearing a feathered head garment. Process print, 1921.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1921 Topics: Female impersonators Description: He poses in a relaxed manner wearing a low-cut dress. Chris Bennett, on an autographed real photo postcard publicising 'Splinters' revue (see Wellcome Library 2044972i), appearing at Nottingham in ... -
"Queenie", a young man in drag. Photograph by Deardens Studios, 1921.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1921 Topics: Female impersonators Description: 'Queenie' looks sweet but a bit tragic in an over-ambitious draped chiffon outfit that was beyond the skills of her dressmaker. Typical of working–class boys dressing up for fun, this costume was p... -
A man in drag, holding a feather, performing in the play 'A country girl'. Photographic postcard, 1920.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1920 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag. -
A sailor in drag, wearing a long coat and hat, sits reading in a garden. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1920 Topics: Female impersonators Description: 'Gaby', one of many imitators of the French revue star Gaby Deslys, engrossed in reading Jules Vernes' Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, comfortably seated in a deck chair in the garden in ful...
