Digital Transgender Archive
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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- hm50tr92p
- Collection
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James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
- Institution
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Wellcome Library
- Date Issued
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1910 to 1919?
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Photographs
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- Topic(s)
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Female impersonators
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Still Image
- Analog Format
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1 photograph : photoprint ;
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