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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 by J.A. Harding, 193-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1930 to 1939? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Billie Manders wearing a black dress and raising the sides of his skirt. He was a popular Rhyl-based female impersonator: he and his troupe 'The Quaintesques' were concert party entertainers from t... -
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’. -
Billie Manders, in drag. Process print, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1923 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: No slouch where costume was concerned, the photograph shows Billie in a spectacular jewelled and bullion-embroidered headdress of the variety known as a 'headache band ', high fashion circa 1923-19... -
Billie Manders in drag; vignette portrait. Photographic postcard, 1929.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1929 Topics: Female impersonators Description: A close-up portrait of Billie Manders, late 1920s. The hair and make-up show Hollywood influence, with heavily plucked brows, false eye-lashes and precisely outlined lips -
Billy Lorraine in drag, posing for a portrait. Photographic postcard, ca. 1930.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1930 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Bolette Berg Sitting in a Chair Holding a Fan
Collection: Berg and Høeg Photographs Institution: Preus Museum Creator: Høeg, Marie, Berg, Bolette Date: circa 1895 to circa 1903 Topics: Clothing, Gender non-conforming people, Photography Subject: Bolette Berg, Marie Høeg Description: Bolette Berg poses seated, wearing traditional women's attire with a doleful expression. -
Bothwell Browne as "Miss Jack"
Collection: Transas City Photographs (1900-1950) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: circa 1919 Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Musicals, Photographs, Stage fencing Subject: Bothwell Browne Description: Bothwell Browne photograph for the Broadway production, Miss Jack at the Herald Square Theatre. -
Bothwell Browne as the Fencing Girl in "Miss Jack"
Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949) Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: 1910 to circa 1919 Topics: Actors, Crossdressing, Photography Subject: Bothwell Browne, Miss Jack, Winning a Gibson Widow -
Bothwell Browne Posing with Sword
Collection: Transas City Photographs (1900-1950) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: circa 1919 Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Musical theatre, Photographs, Stage fencing Subject: Bothwell Browne Description: Bothwell Browne photograph for the Broadway production, Miss Jack at the Herald Square Theatre. -
Britain's Foremost Female Impersonator Jimmy Slater
Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949) Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: circa 1920 to circa 1939 Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography Subject: Jimmy Slater -
British airforce servicemen performing a sketch, striking an animated pose. Photograph, 1918.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1918 Topics: Female impersonators Description: A British concert party somewhere in the Middle East towards the end of World War I. Men in drag performing 'The giddy Pasha', with a fabric backdrop. The Pasha and his wives have joined forces wit... -
British prisoners of war in cowboy and cowgirl costumes posing at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919? Topics: Female impersonators Description: A man in cowgirl costume poses with a man in cowboy costume in front of a sparsely painted backdrop. Commercially produced Western films from Hollywood enjoyed great popularity in Europe from 1911 ... -
British prisoners of war in smart attire performing a show at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 1916-1917.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1916? to 1917? Topics: Female impersonators, Seaside resorts Description: One actor is in drag, holding a baby, as two other men face the camera. The beach tableau shows a family relaxing on the sands with mother, father, boy wearing an Eton collar and a mortar-board; 'M... -
British prisoners of war, one in drag, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The man in drag poses holding a tall white stick in the centre of the stage; two men lean in from the sides of the stage set. The photograph demonstrates the high level of professionalism which we...
