Three actors performing at a prisoner of war camp in Münster. Photographic postcard, ca. 1916.

Date:
[1916?]
Reference:
2043045i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Three actors performing at a prisoner of war camp in Münster. Photographic postcard, ca. 1916. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A character in drag is pleading with possibly her father, whilst being restrained by the other man in drag (the mother?), within domestic scenery.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1916?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.8 x 13.7 cm

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Melodrama being played out on the well-improvised set of the camp thatre at Muster POW Camp, circa 1916. The 'Father' figure on the left is wearing Flemish wooden clogs, and the 'daughter' being ejected from the family home is obviously the 'Bad Girl of the Family' in a melodramatic potboiler of the type popular with working class audiences all over Europe in this period, this one apparently entitled 'Blanchette'. The card was sent home to Brussels, where it was bought in the fleamarket for 1 euro almost a century later."
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Reference

Wellcome Collection 2043045i

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

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