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British prisoners of war performing a show at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus, with Dover cliffs backdrop. Photographic postcard, 191-.

  • Tharan, Paul.
Date
[between 1910 and 1919?]
Reference
2043279i
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Description

One man in drag poses in summer attire, standing arm in arm with a man dressed in black evening wear with a top hat. They are dressed for a day at the races, circa 1912. The man in drag is dressed in a hobble skirt, the height of fashion in the period immediately preceding World War I

Publication/Creation

Cottbus : Paul Tharan. Lager-Photograph, [between 1910 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 8.7 x 13.5 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Kriegsgef. Lager Cottbus-Engl. Theater

Creator/production credits

Professionally posed and photographed by Paul Tharan

Reference

Wellcome Library no. 2043279i

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Languages

  • German

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  • The James Gardiner Collection

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

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