Amateur actors in drag, pose on stage as "The Blackthorns". Photographic postcard, 191-.

Date:
[between 1910 and 1919?]
Reference:
2043807i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Amateur actors in drag, pose on stage as "The Blackthorns". Photographic postcard, 191-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The four men all wear feathered head garments and dresses and are members of 'The Blackthorns' concert party. Two are seated in the centre and two stand either side of the bench.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1910 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard : offset lithograph ; 8.8 x 13.8 cm

Contributors

Lettering

The Blackthorns.

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Four men in particularly attractive ‘exotic’ drag. A printed card produced in offset litho by the well known firm of Sanbride ; it must have been in quite some demand to warrant being printed in the kind of quantity to make this form of production viable."
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2043807i

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  • Military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag

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