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  1. A man in drag singing. Photographic postcard, 193-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1930 to 1939?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.

  2. A sailor holds hands with a man in elaborate drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1999?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: A naval officer holds hand with a man in an exotic dancer's costume. Location unidentified.

  3. Actors in pantomime in Brighton: S. West playing King Robert of Remlaf and H. Taylor in drag as Queen Aggie of Remlaf. Photographic postcard.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1900 to 1999
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Amateur theatricals in Brighton. The Queen was a popular Dame figure in pantomime. Identities of cast members from pencil inscription on verso of print catalogued. Remlaf is a palindrome of Falmer,...

  4. Amusements at the Torch Club

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 18, 1936
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Billy Beryl, Danny Brown, Jean Harlow, Torch Club

  5. Bert and Henri, in character; wearing evening dress, one of them in drag. Photographic postcard, 1936.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1936
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.

  6. Billie Manders in character. Photographic postcard by J.A. Harding, 193-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1930 to 1939?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Billie Manders wearing a black dress and raising the sides of his skirt. He was a popular Rhyl-based female impersonator: he and his troupe 'The Quaintesques' were concert party entertainers from t...

  7. Britain's Foremost Female Impersonator Jimmy Slater

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1920 to circa 1939
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography
    Subject: Jimmy Slater

  8. Club Chesterfield Presents: Mr. Roby Landers

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1900s
    Topics: Clubs, Drag, Events, Female impersonators
    Subject: Club Chesterfielf, Roby Landers

  9. German actors, some in drag, gather on stage at a party. Photographic postcard, 1930-45.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1930? to 1945?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: The actors, playing a variety of characters, are drinking and in conversation on stage, with lanterns hanging from the layered stage ceiling. A German amateur theatrical (presumably military) group...

  10. Henri Defreyn in drag as a geisha. Process print after G. Dupont, 19--.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1900 to 1999?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Henri Defreyn performing a parody of Sada Yacco, geisha and actress. The extremely popular Japanese entertainer Sada Yacco had toured the world 1900-1903 and caused a sensation wherever she went. S...

  11. Hialeah Club: Queens are Wild

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Fat Jak
    Date: 1920? to 1940?
    Topics: Drag, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Bobbi James, Buzzi, Fat Jak, Gayle Channing, Hialeah Club, Little Lil, Samantha Jones, Toni Desmond

  12. Hialeah Club: Queens are Wild (2)

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Fat Jak
    Date: 1920? to 1940?
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Bobbi James, Fat Jak, Gayle Channing, Hialeah Club, Jan Ett, Little Lil, Samantha Jones, Toni Desmond

  13. Hialeah Club: Would You Believe...I'm a Boy!

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1920? to 1940?
    Topics: Dancers, Drag, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Gayle Channing, Hialeah Club, Toni Desmond

  14. Jimmy Slater Presents the Super Follies

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1930s
    Topics: Female impersonators, Photography, Theatre shows
    Subject: Jimmy Slater

  15. Jimmy Slater: The Incendiary Blonde

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1930s
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography
    Subject: Jimmy Slater