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Louis Vernassier in drag poses with a harp. Process print, 1906.
Louis Vernassier l'homme-protée musical excentrique. Dans son travesti-dame. Jouant: violon, mandoline, mandole, violoncelle, piano, contrebasse, guitare, xylophone, grelots, saxophone, harpe, cuivres etc. et tousinstruments. Excentrique.
Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
He is playing the harp in front of a partially painted backdrop. 'Musical eccentric' Louis Vernassier, drag artist, quick-change performer and musician. This kind of novelty drag/musical hybrid entertainment was particularly popular in continental Europe, but there were few exponents on the British music-hall stage
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James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
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Wellcome Library
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Jan. 1, 1906
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Photographs
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Female impersonators
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Still Image
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1 print : process print ;
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