Digital Transgender Archive
A sailor in drag, wearing a long coat and hat, sits reading in a garden. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.
En souvenir de Gaby Liber[...]
'Gaby', one of many imitators of the French revue star Gaby Deslys, engrossed in reading Jules Vernes' Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, comfortably seated in a deck chair in the garden in full drag consisting of a very chic belted and high-waisted suit, shoes with 'lavatory' heels, and a great deal of make-up. The combination of the Gosport imprint and the Jules Verne title suggest he was in the navy
Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag.
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- Collection
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James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
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Wellcome Library
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Jan. 1, 1920
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Photographs
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Female impersonators
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Still Image
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1 photograph : photoprint ;
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