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Seven men on stage set of "The seven acorns". Photographic postcard, 1918-1920.

"The seven acorns"

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Six men in evening dress and a man seated on a prop in drag. A concert party on the ill-fated battleship HMS Royal Oak, circa 1918-20 (the ship was sunk after being torpedoed in Scapa Flow in October 1939, with 833 men lost). The 'drag' performer is in a badly improvised costume and wig, while the members of the formally-attired male chorus are all smoking cheroots

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

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Identifier
pg15bf13x
Collection
James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution
Wellcome Library
Date Issued
1918 to 1920?
Genre
Photographs
Prints
Topic(s)
Female impersonators
Resource Type
Still Image
Analog Format
1 photograph : photoprint ;
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