Men in drag at Club My-O-My, New Orleans. Colour process print, 195-.

Date:
[between 1950 and 1959]
Reference:
2045320i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Men in drag at Club My-O-My, New Orleans. Colour process print, 195-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Photograph of seven performers posing in a range of dresses, wigs, hats and other accessories, and another in a gold suit jacket and black trousers.

Publication/Creation

Milwaukee, Wis. : E.C. Kropp Co., [between 1950 and 1959]

Physical description

1 postcard : colour process print ; 9 x 14 cm

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Lettering

Mr. Pat Waters. Club My-O-My. Proudly presents the world's most beautiful boys in women's attire. Unique. Unusual Tourist, when in New Orleans, you haven't seen New Orleans until you visit My-O-My. Remember Mr. Pat Water's Million Dollar Revue. Tops in female impersonators... Lettering printed in black on top recto and in purple on top verso.

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Publicity card for 'Club My-O-My' in the French Quarter of New Orleans, which was in operation c.1930 until it was destroyed by fire in 1972. The club presented cross-dressed 'glamour drag' acts to a preponderantly heterosexual (and exclusively white) audience."
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Reference

Wellcome Collection 2045320i

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  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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    Closed stores

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