An actor in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Date:
[between 1920 and 1929]
Reference:
2045072i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Credit

An actor in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Photograph of an actor wearing a fedora-type hat with a dark jacket and skirt, holding a cigarette in one hand and a cane in the other.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1920 and 1929]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 13.4 x 8.5 cm

Series

Contributors

Related material

Image of the same person: Wellcome Collection 2045068i (b20450680)

Lettering

Bears number: o/10293 (written in white ink, bottom left recto) Lewis (signed in black ink, bottom right recto)

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "The same character actor as 2045068i, but here dressed in drag as a 'mannish' woman, perhaps based on Radclyffe Hall, who's groundbreaking lesbian novel of 1928 'The well of loneliness' brought her instant notoriety."
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2045072i

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Where to find it

  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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    Closed stores

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