Harold Chapman in drag poses with Mark Leslie dressed as a Golliwog, in an act for the Bow Bells. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Date:
[between 1910 and 1919?]
Reference:
2043302i
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The James Gardiner Collection.
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view Harold Chapman in drag poses with Mark Leslie dressed as a Golliwog, in an act for the Bow Bells. Photographic postcard, 191-.

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Harold Chapman in drag poses with Mark Leslie dressed as a Golliwog, in an act for the Bow Bells. Photographic postcard, 191-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

Great Britain : [s.n], [between 1910 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.8 x 13.7 cm

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Mark Leslie and Harold Chapman (Bow Bells)

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Two members of the Bow Bells Concert party attached to 56th (London) Division. The very pretty Mr. Harold Chapman in drag with Mark Leslie playing a golliwog (as invented by the illustrator Florence Upton in 1894)."
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Wellcome Collection 2043302i

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

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