Madame Lloyd's choir and orchestra.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1909?]
Reference:
2044491i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Madame Lloyd's choir and orchestra. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced April 2022: Actors in "Madame Lloyd's choir and orchestra". Process print, 190-.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1900 and 1909?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard : process print ; 8.9 x 14 cm

Notes

This description was provided by James Gardiner: "Actors, one in drag(?), pose for a group portrait. By the turn of the nineteenth century , music hall had become the most popular form of entertainment. Even quite small towns had their own theatre, and larger towns had many: Brighton for example, a popular holiday resort near to London, had more than twenty. Thousands of performers of every possible kind were needed to fill these stages, and the constantly changing bills of music hall and variety meant a peripatetic existence for large numbers of itinerant professionals, most of whom were soon completely forgotten. The present item depicts one such obscure music hall 'turn'. Madame Lloyd's troupe, although billed as 'Choir and Orchestra', wears costumes which range from Tyrolean, to period rustic, to the obligatory 'Dame' on the far left."
The title has been taken from wording on the object.  

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2044491i

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  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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