Two Belgian soldiers cleaning their uniforms. Coloured photographic postcard, 192-.
- Date:
- [between 1920 and 1929?]
- Reference:
- 2059480i
- Part of:
- The James Gardiner Collection.
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About this work
Description
Sepia photograph of two soldiers polising their kit. Elements of their clothing have been hand-coloured.
Publication/Creation
[Belgium] : Guy, [between 1920 and 1929?] (Fabrication Belge)
Physical description
1 photographic postcard : print and watercolour ; 13.7 x 8.6 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Printed on recto: Guy 104.
Notes
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Belgian soldiers polishing their kit. In more (homo)sexually aware times, the easy intimate comradeship between men that was commonplace up to the 1950s all but disappeared. Heterosexual men became much less likely to be photographed in any situation that might be interpreted as 'gay'. As a consequence of this change, images from the past reflecting how men could show affection for each other in public without fear of being called names have a particular poignance for gay collectors, and there are many such nostalgically 'innocent' images in their collections".
One in a pair of photographs, the other being Wellcome Library no. 2059482i
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2059480i
Type/Technique
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Where to find it
Romantic fantasy and comic postcards
Location Status Access Closed stores