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A prisoner of war in drag, wearing a dress and white cloak, poses mid-movement with arms outstretched. Photographic postcard by Albert Melzer, 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 wearing small heels and a decorative head garment on stage. Unidentified prisoner of war camp drag. The costume is rather amateurishly produced using expensive materials: silk, m... -
A quick-change performer known as "Lanzetta"; inset in many small portraits. Photographic postcard by F. Célis, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919? Topics: Female impersonators Description: A montage of French (?) female impersonator 'Lanzetta', presumably a quick-change artist from the large number (twenty) of female characters making up the composite -
A re-enactment of Queen Elizabeth I at Tilbury. Postcard, ca. 1929.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1925 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The Queen, in drag, is on horseback in a procession of men. A re-enactment of her speech to the English land forces assembled at Tilbury in preparation for repelling the expected invasion by the Sp... -
A sailor called William Mills in drag and in naval uniform. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Unusual World War I period photograph showing Able Seaman William Mills in and out of costume as Lady Poppam. The image of William Mills ain drag appears to have been cutout and placed on a pencil-... -
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. -
A sailor in drag leans on a high stool, in front of patterned scenery. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919? Topics: Female impersonators Description: He is wearing a plain dress and a hat, whilst leaning on a stool -
A sailor in drag on S.S. Caronia. Photograph, 195-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1950 to 1959? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Very convincing amateur drag, mid 1950s.An unidentified merchant seamen on board S.S. Caronia. The Merchant Navy to some degree provided a bolt-hole for many 'obvious' homosexuals in the 1950s, whe... -
A sailor in drag sits on the deck of a ship in bright sunlight. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919? Topics: Female impersonators Description: A good-looking and distinctly masculine young sailor sits on a deckchair on the deck of a ship wearing fashionable ladies' clothes of the 1900s. The outfit includes a wide silk skirt, well-made hat... -
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... -
A sailor in drag, wearing a milkmaid costume. Photographic postcard by H.J. Bond, 1906.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1906 Topics: Female impersonators Description: The man in drag is apparently Able Seaman Arthur Roach, a crew member of the H.M.S. Prince of Wales. He poses as a milkmaid behind a wooden fence and in front of a painted background. He is wearin... -
A sailor on H.M.S St. Vincent, in drag as a bride in a performance of 'The Great Casimir'. Photographic postcard, 1918.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1918 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Able seaman Smith is dressed as a bride, "Ninetta", holding a bouquet of flowers, in front of a leafy painted backdrop. He is wearing a high waisted frock with a short train of the kind fashionable... -
A Seated Performer Poses for a Photograph
Collection: Military Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945 Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers Subject: Look At Us Now Description: A performer poses seated in a chair wearing a two piece dress and matching hat. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen. -
A Seated Performer Poses for a Photograph
Collection: Military Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945 Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers Subject: Look At Us Now Description: A seated performer poses in a two-piece dress. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen. -
A shoeshine boy cleans the boots of a man in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1905.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1905 Topics: Female impersonators Description: The boy wears a registration number on his sleeve. In the background, a painted backdrop showing a city street. A photographic comic card produced by the firm of Bamforth, circa 1905. This genre of... -
A soldier who ecaped from the Turks dressed as a woman; advertising the military magazine "The Wide World". Photographic postcard, ca. 1918.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1918 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Postcard reproduction of a cover of 'Wide World Magazine' (published London 1898-1965) showing a soldier in drag, with him in military uniform inset, with text alluding to how the soldier "escaped ...
