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Six sailors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait on the deck of H.M.S. St. George. Photographic postcard, 191-.

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

The group of six men are all wearing sailor uniforms except for the man in drag, who wears a bonnet and reveals his right leg to the viewer. A group of Royal Navy seamen on board H.M.S. St. George. One wears Edwardian ladies' clothes including a very large and wide-brimmed hat of the type fashionable ca. 1910. Possibly a 'crossing-the-line' ceremony?

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Item Information:

Identifier
6m311p64r
Collection
James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution
Wellcome Library
Date Issued
1910 to 1919?
Genre
Photographs
Prints
Topic(s)
Female impersonators
Resource Type
Still Image
Analog Format
1 photograph : photoprint ;
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