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Credit
A person in drag called "Aunt Sammy" in an inset portrait. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
A person in drag called "Aunt Sammy" in an inset portrait.
- Date:
- [1905?]
- Reference:
- 2044507i
- Part of:
- The James Gardiner Collection.
- Pictures
- Online
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced May 2022: An actor, in drag, called "Aunt Sammy", in an inset portrait. Photographic postcard, ca. 1905.
Description
The postcard shows a person in drag wearing a Victorian black bonnet and cape in a circular-cropped portrait. 'Aunt' Sammy is a reference to 'Charley's Aunt', the eponymous heroine of a popular farce of this period by Brandon Thomas.
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1905?]
Physical description
1 photographic postcard ; 8.7 x 13.7 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Good wishes from Aunt Sammy
Shall expect you / Thursday as / arranged
Lettering written in black ink on right recto and written in black ink on left verso
Notes
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2044507i
Type/Technique
Where to find it
Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'
Location Status Access Closed stores