Harry Smallwood and another man stand in a field, one in drag and the other wearing Turkish inspired costume. Photographic postcard, 1925-.

Date:
1925
Reference:
2043342i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Harry Smallwood and another man stand in a field, one in drag and the other wearing Turkish inspired costume. Photographic postcard, 1925-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The two men represent "East meets West" according to a handwritten inscription on the reverse.

Publication/Creation

Knighton [Powys?] : [publisher not identified], 1925.

Physical description

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 8.7 x 13.9 cm

Related material

A Wellcome Library blog post was written in June 2014 on this specific postcard from the collection, Spotlight: a summer fête in Powys https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210313123616/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/06/spotlight-a-summer-fete-in-powys

Lettering

Harry Smallwood

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Mr. Smallwood wears hastily put together drag and carries a mid-19th century carriage parasol. His partner wears Turkish inspired costume."
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2043342i

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

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