The James Gardiner Collection.
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Physical description
13 albums, 12 photographs on 2 sheets, 3 prints and 2 volumes : photographic prints, postcards, process prints, albumen prints
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Contents
Victorian album. 35 cartes de visite presented in a 19th century photograph album depicting private and theatrical cross-dressing, mostly 1860s, including photographs of Boulton and Park
Photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. 269 photographs, prints and postcards depicting theatrical female impersonation and drag performers in music hall, commercial theatre, pantomime, and amateur theatricals, 1860-1990.
Photograph album on drag and female impersonation. 42 photographs, prints and postcards depicting theatrical female impersonation and drag performers, including WWI soldiers in military camps, Cambridge footlights performances, and some private photography, c.1860-1918.
Unlabelled photograph album. 241 photographs, prints and postcards depicting classical sculptures and paintings of the male nude, wrestlers, strong men and idealized men, ethnographic nudes and sicilian photographs by Von Gloeden and Von Pluschow, ca. 1890-1930.
Photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag. 237 photographs, prints and postcards depicting theatrical female impersonation and drag performed in military camps, prisoner of war camps, ships and other military settings in the UK and Europe, c.1910s-1920s.
Romantic fantasy and comic postcards, and photographs on gender and masculinity. 275 photographs, prints and postcards including romantic fantasy postcards, famous figures subverting sexual or gender norms, comic postcards representing 'unmasculine' behaviour, and private photographs on masculine affection in the army, navy and theatre, c.1900-1960.
Copy of published book by James Gardiner: Who's a pretty boy then? : one hundred & fifty years of gay life in pictures, London ; New York : Serpent's Tail, 1997, which draws on the present collection and other collections
Homoerotica Album. 88 photographs, prints and postcards curated by James Gardiner on the subject of homoerotic representations including muscular physiques, classical ideals, fetish fashion and hollywood gay pin-ups.
Fully Exposed Album. 59 photographs and photographic postcards on the subject of homoerotic representations, particularly naked and partially clothed men, as a continuation of the Homoerotica Album.
"Bodybuilding by post" Album. Includes correspondence for bodybuilding courses, and photographs of muscular men demonstrating exercises.
Private album and diary of Albert Edward Quint (1914-1992). Includes c.100 private photographs of men wearing military uniforms and diary for 1937, both compiled by Quint and referring to his military fetishes.
Album on lesbian depictions, male impersonation, gender and masculinity. 144 photographs, prints and postcards on the subject of lesbian related imagery, male impersonation and masculine gender presentations, mostly dated 1900-1950 with 7 more recent cards.
Two men engaged in various sexual acts. An undivided sheet of unmounted cabinet photographs.
Men engaged in various sexual acts. An undivided sheet of unmounted cartes de visite
Private album containing photographs of 'Roger'
Private album containing photographs of young men
Three cards produced by the Northwest AIDS foundation reproducing postcards in the James Gardiner Collection.
Type/Technique
Where to find it
Military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag
Location Status Access Closed storesRomantic fantasy and comic postcards
Location Status Access Closed storesPhotograph album labelled ‘Drag'
Location Status Access Closed storesUnlabelled photograph album
Location Status Access Closed storesVictorian album
Location Status Access Closed stores