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Three actors perform on stage. Photographic postcard, 1928.

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Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.

They perform with giant feathered fans. Two stand while a third poses on the ground with legs raised. They are dressed in the ornate feather-bedecked costumes associated with spectacular revues at the Folies Bergères, Le Moulin Rouge, and other large music-halls in Paris. The two characters standing are certainly men; the third character may be a woman

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Identifier
0p096719t
Collection
James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution
Wellcome Library
Date Issued
Jan. 1, 1928
Genre
Photographs
Prints
Topic(s)
Female impersonators
Resource Type
Still Image
Analog Format
1 photograph : photoprint ;
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