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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
Boisselot as Cyprien in Les Postillons de Crevecoeur at the Folies Dramatiques.. The French actress Boisselot in drag in the carnivalesque entertainment at the Folies
Vesta Tilley, WW1Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations
The Gamecocks, WW1 entertainment troupeThe Gamecocks, one of the many divisional concert parties entertaining troops on the Western Front. Despite the deceptive appearance of the girl in the middle, she really is a man. Date: 1918
Where the RAF fighters score by G. H. DavisAerodynamic cleanliness: where the RAF fighters score during the Second World War. In very high speed aircraft small projections and even rough surface paint may seriously reduce speed
George RobeySir George Robey (1869 1954), English music hall comedian and singer. Here dressed as Dame Trot, in the Panto-Land: Hipprodrome Leads. Date: 1922
The Gentle Art of Excavating - A New Multi-Movement Drag ShoA new multi-movement drag shovel excavating for the foundations of a new cinema. A typically convoluted digger, made from recycled bits of houses
China - Shanghai - Heavy cart pulled by a human teamChina - Shanghai - Heavy street cart (laden with wooden crates) pulled by a human team. Date: circa 1930
Grandfather and Grandchildren at the seaside - ThackerayPassive Resistance - A Grandfather, thoroughly enjoying his day at the seaside with the Grandchildren, curbs the speed they can reach the sea, however much they encourage him to get a move
Drag and thrust wakes behind conventional and laminarised aircraft
Queen Elizabeths drag chainsThe total weight of the Queen Elizabeths drag chains, which are coiled on either side of the hull, is nearly 2000 tons
Trying to drag him from his altar and his idol. Illustration shows an old man labeled Progressive Republican trying to pull an aged and battered elephant labeled GOP
Royal Staff College, drag hounds, Camberley, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Coronation fancy dress party, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Tommy Rose - British Forces Revue Star in full flow and in full feminine attire! Performing in Arthur Lanes Forces Revue as a showgirl. Date: circa 1940s
Chinese ActorsChinese actors during a performance. The caption describes the principal performer as an actress - is she in drag ? circa 1911
American Scouts pulling a sledgeA group of American Boy Scouts dragging a sledge up a steep snow-covered hill in a forest. circa 1950s
Metropolitan Police theatricals, showing five performers on a raised stage. There is a tea hut on the right, advertising tea, coffee and sandwiches, with a man serving an elderly customer
Man in drag at a festival, Haimhausen, Bavaria, GermanyA man in drag, including a white wig with a model ship on top, at a rococo festival in Haimhausen, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Cross-dressing male dancerAn amusing postcard depiction of a cross-dressing male stage performer from the north-west of England in frilly white dancers attire and silk headband
Decoration Scandals 2The decoration scandals (the usual " honours for cash" naughtiness) - drag on from last year : scene during the trial of Wilson at Paris
Battle of ZurichThe French revolution and the the creation of the Helvetian Republic drag Switzerland into the wars : the French defeat the Russians at Zurich twice, secondly at Devils Bridge
French Stone QuarryHorses drag a wagon-load of stone from a French quarry : a massive windlass is used to raise the stone from the workings to the road
Malcolm Scott / VarietyMALCOLM SCOTT Music hall entertainer: The Woman who Knows
Gnomes Deliver PresentsTwo kindly gnomes drag a load of presents - Christmas in a nut-shell !
Parry / Seal HuntParrys second expedition: the expedition party drag back a seal they have sucessfully captured to eat
Yellowstone Bear AttacksIn Yellowstone, a bear pats a woman in a car, but her friend gets angry, so the bear starts to drag her out of the car... until the park warden stops him
Mine, Trolley Boys / B / WTROLLEY BOYS Two boys on all fours drag a laden wagon up a sloping gallery : a shift can be as little as 11 hours a day, or in Scotland up to 18 hours
Mine, Trolley BoysTROLLEY BOYS Two boys on all fours drag a laden wagon up a sloping gallery : a shift can be as little as 11 hours a day, or in Scotland up to 18 hours
Marble from CarraraTwelve oxen are needed to drag this piece of marble from the quarries at Carrara, Italy
Fairy Tales / The CrowThe evil spirits drag the girl into the cauldron. (Polish story)
Dutch MaypoleOxen drag the maypole, Netherlands