Six sailors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait on the deck of H.M.S. St. George. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Date:
[between 1910 and 1919?]
Reference:
2043377i
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The James Gardiner Collection.
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Six sailors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait on the deck of H.M.S. St. George. Photographic postcard, 191-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The group of six men are all wearing sailor uniforms except for the man in drag, who wears a bonnet and reveals his right leg to the viewer.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1910 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.8 x 13.9 cm

Contributors

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "A group of Royal Navy seamen on board H.M.S. St.George . One wears Edwardian ladies’ clothes including a very large and wide-brimmed hat of the type fashionable circa 1910. Possibly a ‘crossing-the-line’ ceremony."
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Reference

Wellcome Collection 2043377i

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

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