Four British servicemen performing a sketch with vehicles. Photograph, 191-.

A British concert party somewhere in the Middle East towards the end of World War I, performing a tableau entitled 'The picnic on Highgate Hill' (according to inscription on verso). On the left a man in tweed plus-fours and a Tam o'Shanter rides a (Triumph?) motorcycle, carrying a pillion passenger in drag: the passenger represents a woman of easy virtue wearing a short skirt, low décolleté, coq feather boa, and brimmed hat worn at a rakish angle. They are in conversation with a man wearing tweedy country clothes, leading a pantomime horse yoked to a cart carring a passenger in drag, on the right

Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag.

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Identifier: hm50tr92p
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution: Wellcome Library
Date Issued: 1910 to 1919?
Genre: Photographs
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Topic(s): Female impersonators
Resource Type: Still Image
Analog Format: 1 photograph : photoprint ;
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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