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French or Belgian prisoners of war, some in drag, posing on stage during a crowded scene of "La dame aux camélias"; at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 191-.

French or Belgian prisoners of war, some in drag, posing on stage during a crowded scene of "La dame aux camélias"; at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 191-.

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

Date

[1918?]

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Several people are standing in conversation whilst some actors attend to a man in drag who has fainted to the left of the scene. This looks like an ambitious production of a play based on the 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas fils. The character fainting is presumably Marguérite who collapses

Reference

Wellcome Library no. 2043804i

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