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A meeting at a masquerade ballA meeting at a ball: A masked woman and Normandy girl flirt with a revolutionary man in bicorn and cockade, while a woman in drag as a Turkish man interrupts and a double bass player looks
Mlle Nathalie in drag as the Chevalier d Essone, 1847Zaite-Nathalie Martel or Mlle Nathalie in drag as the Chevalier d Essone by Dupeuty and Anicet Bourgeois, Theatre du Vaudeville, 1847
Sofia Fuoco and Maria Jacob in the ballet Ozai, 1847Italian ballet dancer Sofia Fuoco as a soldier and French dancer Maria Jacob in the ballet Ozai by Jean Carolli, 1847. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor
Delphine Marquet as the Marquis in La VeuveFrench actress Delphine Marquet as the Marquis in La Veuve de Quinze Ans by Theaulon and Adolphe, Theatre des Varieties, 1847
Pauline Virginie Dejazet as Gentil BernardFrench actress Pauline Virginie Dejazet as Gentil Bernard, ou L Art d aimer, by Philippe-Francois Dumanoir and Clairville, Theatre des Varietes, 1846
Mlle Dejazet and Madame Bressant in Gentil Bernard, 1846French actress Pauline Virginie Dejazet in drag as Gentil Bernard and Elisabeth Augustine Dupont or Madame Bressant as Claudine in Gentil Bernard, ou L Art d aimer
Mlle. Irma Aubry as Polkette in Le Mardi GrasMarie-Pauline Albaret or Mlle. Irma Aubry as Polkette in Le Mardi Gras a l Hotel des Haricots by Laurencin and Clairville, Theatre du Gymnase, 1846
The climb of Rio-Frio barricaded by the MexicansA battalion of soldiers march up the Rio-Frio pass, with two officers on horseback watching as groups of soldiers ahead try to drag fallen trees and logs from the path. Date: 1863
Patriotic fancy dress, c. 1910A man dressed up as a woman pushing a pram festooned with streamers and flags and containing three children in bonnets and bedecked straw hats
Cartoon, Herbert Campbell as an Ugly SisterCartoon, Herbert Campbell as one of Cinderellas Ugly Sisters at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. 1884
Willam Sydney Penley (1852 - 1912) English actor-manager, seen here in the role of Charleys Aunt Date: 1894
Leading Ladies at Cambridge University. Date: 1925
Do we need the Actress?. Mr Huntley Wright at Home Date: 1904" Do we need the Actress?". Mr Huntley Wright at Home Date: 1904
Do we need the Actress?. Mr Edgar Atchison-Ely in Rational Dress. Date: 1904" Do we need the Actress?". Mr Edgar Atchison-Ely in Rational Dress. Date: 1904
A sailor and his girl - Studio shotA sailor (from HMS Llewellyn) and his girl - Studio shot. It has been suggested there is a likelihood these two are both chaps and that the fancy dress box (and wig store) was raided that day
British Advance on Western FrontBritish soldiers drag a captured German Field Gun into a new position in order to use it against the enemy Date: 1917
Gibson Girl / M Scott 1907Music hall entertainer Malcolm Scott, parodying the fashionable Gibson Girl. Date: 1907
Rocky Twins as Dolly Sisters in Les Ailes de Paris, CasinoThe Rocky Twins as the Dolly Sisters in Les Ailes de Paris at the Casino de Paris, 1927 Date: 1927
Noel Coward in drag - playing lead in Cambridge FootlightsSome of the dresses worn by the leading lady of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club which was staging Folly at the Strand Theatre in June 1923. The actress is none other than Mr N. B
Cecil Beaton as an ugly sister in Heil Cinderella, 1940Cecil Beaton in costume as an ugly sister for a performance of the play he co-authored, called Heil Cinderella. Date: 1940
Vesta Tilley - final performance with Dame Ellen TerryVesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations
Les Rouges et Noirs army troupe at the Savoy, 1919Les Rouges et Noirs, the concert troupe of the First Army pictured with the manager, Captain Makeham at the Savoy Theatre in 1919
Minesweeper trawling for mines in the North Sea, WW1A minesweeper trawling for mines in the North Sea on the outbreak of the First World War. A wire rope attached to a weight is dragged along the seabed
Sudan - A White Nile Crocodile Date: circa 1910
England StonehengeCelebrating a grand conventional festival at Stonehenge : priests and bards perform their functions, oxen drag the Avane, containing a monster from the lake. Date: BCE
Group of people in ragtime fancy dressA group of people in ragtime style fancy dress, including a cowboy on a mule, two policemen, men in drag, a pierrot, a chef, and a few blacked-up faces. Date: 1920s
Cambridge University Footlights with Victor StiebelThe cast of a recent production entitled P.T.O or " Please Tell Others" of the Cambridge University " Footlights Club which was played at the New Theatre, Cambridge from June 6 to 11
Gentleman dressed as a ladyMr Lawrence White - dressed as a woman - shot in Birmingham, with a fan and in fine 1920s attire
Fancy dress en route to India, c. 1920Male passengers on board a ship bound for India posed on deck in a variety of strange fancy dress. There are a few clowns, a nurse and a somewhat sinister chap holding two sheeps heads on plate
The Duenna by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 7 July 1816). First produced at Covent Garden Theatre on 21st November 1775
Cinderella Flyer for the New Theatre Royal, WindsorBack and front covers of flyer for Cinderella at the New Theatre Royal, Windsor on 7th February ?. The artist is Arnold Mello. Six pages of text give the story
Theatre Rotto, Sancreed Village Hall, Penzance, CornwallTheatre Rotto in action, Sancreed Village Hall, Sancreed, near Penzance, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s
Street theatre on the beach, St Ives, Cornwall -- five actors (male and female) from the National Theatre Company, Bath, in teeshirts and miniskirts holding boxes of Kelloggs Cornflakes
Two Edwardian men dressed as suffragettes - either supporters of the cause or lampooning it (in some form). Sadly, no further details exist. Date: circa 1910
Votes for Women - Frederick Pethick-Lawrence as SuffragetteVotes for Women - Frederick Pethick-Lawrence (1871-1961), (husband of prominent campaigner Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence) dressed as Suffragette selling Votes for Women - the 24th November 1911 issue
Miss Evelyn Millard in The Adventure of Lady UrsulaThe Adventure of Lady Ursula by Anthony Hope. First produced at the Duke of Yorks Theatre, London, on 11 October 1898, revival at the Garrick Theatre 5 January 1909
Monument to the Siege of Zaragoza, 1908 by Agustin Querol. SNapoleonic Wars. Peninsular War (1807-1814). Monument to the Siege of Zaragoza. Built in1908 by the Spanish sculptor Agustin Querol (1860-1909)
Christmas card, Yule log. 20th century
Goblins with a pink flamingo on a Christmas cardGoblins dragging a reluctant pink flamingo through the snow on a Christmas card. Perhaps all the shops had sold out of turkeys. Date: circa 1890s
Goblins with a turkey on a Christmas cardGoblins dragging a live turkey along with ropes on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Tuttleburys motor carHumorous staged motor accident photographed in a studio, with a man in drag collapsed under a makeshift car. " Tell us not in mournful tones of Tuttleburys broken bones
Malcolm Scott, music hall entertainer dressed as a Gibson Girl Date: early 20th century
Western Canada - Indian Squaw with Travois. A travois (formerly travoy or travoise) is a historical frame structure that was used by indigenous peoples, notably the Plains Indians of North America
Harry Randall (1857 - 1932), English comic actor, in Humpty Dumpty at Drury Lane Theatre. Date: 1904
Three children in historical costume on a Christmas card, pulling branches of holly through the snow. Date: circa 1890s
Illustration, The Fox and the Horse -- Then the Horse sprang up and drew the Lion away behind him. Date: 1909
Mlle Alphonsine in male drag as the PrincessMlle. Alphonsine in male drag as the Princess Castorine in Les Cinq Cents Diables.. Actress and singer Jeanne Benoit (1829-1883) appeared under the stage names Mlle. Alphonsine and Mlle. Fleury
A hussar in L Etoile du Nord at the Opera Comique.. A woman dressed in a blue and scarlet hussars uniform. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique