Gus Garrick in drag as a pantomime dame. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Yours truly Gus Garrick

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

Wearing a checked dress, he stands looking at the viewer, holding some knitting. The pantomime dame was, by definition, initially a homely type; seen here wearing clumsy boots, a very old fashioned wig in the style of the young Queen Victoria, and doing a bit of knittingPrint catalogued is signed by the actor thus indicating his identity. Gus Garrick appeared at the Cambridge Theatre of Varieties in 1898, in Leeds in 1900, and in Sunderland in November 1914. He is one of the people portrayed in Walter Lambert's painting 'Popularity' at the Museum of London (190-)

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Item Information:

Identifier: 12579s530
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution: Wellcome Library
Date Issued: 1910 to 1919?
Genre: Photographs
Prints
Topic(s): Female impersonators
Resource Type: Still Image
Analog Format: 1 photograph : photoprint ;
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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