Russian soldiers in drag, posing very close together, in front of a plain background. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Date:
[between 1910 and 1919?]
Reference:
2043881i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Russian soldiers in drag, posing very close together, in front of a plain background. Photographic postcard, 191-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The actors are dressed in a variety of fabrics and pose almost like a human-pyramid. Most unusual Russian-published photograph of five men in stylish drag, World War I period. Military concert parties involving drag were an international phenomenon

Publication/Creation

[Russia] : [publisher not identified], [between 1910 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.4 x 13.3 cm

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2043881i

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  • Military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag

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