Actors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait as "Cheerokee Minstrels". Photographic postcard by H..E. Howorth, 1904.

Date:
[1904]
Reference:
2045165i
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The James Gardiner Collection.
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view Actors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait as "Cheerokee Minstrels". Photographic postcard by H..E. Howorth, 1904.

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Actors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait as "Cheerokee Minstrels". Photographic postcard by H..E. Howorth, 1904. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The group pose sitting down. There are four men in evening dress and three men in costume, one wearing a dress and bonnet, and in front six young boys sitting on the floor wearing black wigs.

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Publication/Creation

[Fleetwod, Lancashire] : Howorth Photo, [1904]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.8 x 13.6 cm

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Lettering

Cheerokee Minstrels Lettering written in white ink on bottom recto.

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "A large troupe of entertainers including several children, at Fleetwood in Lancashire in 1904. The drag figure carries a tambourine and wears a very large bonnet."
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Wellcome Collection 2045165i

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  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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