Miss Carrie Moore and the Sandow girls performing as "The Dairymaids". Photographic postcard, 1906.

Date:
[1906?]
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2046883i
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The James Gardiner Collection.
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Miss Carrie Moore and the Sandow girls performing as "The Dairymaids". Photographic postcard, 1906. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Photograph of five women wearing long white dresses and holding small dumb-bells on stage; four women have their backs to the viewer, the fifth, Carrie Moore, us turned to look at the viewer. "The Dairymaids" was a musical farce by Paul A. Rubens (songs), Frank E. Tours (music), Alexander M. Thompson (dialogue), Robert Courtneidge (producer and librettist) and Arthur Wimperis (lyrics). It was first produced at the Apollo Theatre in London in 1906.

Publication/Creation

[London] : Rotary Photo E.C., [1906?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.7 x 13.2 cm

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"The Dairymaids". Miss Carrie Moore and the Sandow girls.

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "By 1906 Eugen Sandow was an extremely popular cultural figure in England and was referred to in the press as 'The High Priest of physical culture'. His methods of promoting health and strength through weight training attracted thousands of devotees, including young women. The popular musical comedy 'The Dairymaids', which played to large audiences that year in London, featured the popular Australian actress and singer Carrie Moore, and a chorus of 'Sandow Girls', posing with dumb-bells and flexing their muscles. This was in a period when the role of women in society was undergoing radical changes, and the fin-de-siècle notions of 'The New Woman' began to evolve into reality. Suffragettes were on the march, corsets were being discarded, and thanks to Sandow, women were flexing actual muscle to public acclaim."

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Wellcome Collection 2046883i

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