French or Belgian prisoners of war, one in drag, performing a scene from "L'anglais tel qu'on le parle" at Friedberg Camp, Germany. Photographic postcard, 1917.

Date:
[1917]
Reference:
2044148i
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The James Gardiner Collection.
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view French or Belgian prisoners of war, one in drag, performing a scene from "L'anglais tel qu'on le parle" at Friedberg Camp, Germany. Photographic postcard, 1917.

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French or Belgian prisoners of war, one in drag, performing a scene from "L'anglais tel qu'on le parle" at Friedberg Camp, Germany. Photographic postcard, 1917. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The men, dressed as different characters, are all looking at the man in drag, who is seated at a table using a telephone. The actors are identified on verso of print catalogued. There are no further details of this particular camp, but as the number of Allied prisoners held by the Germans had reached 652,000 by 1916, the number of smaller camps proliferated

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1917]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.8 x 13.6 cm

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
Wellcome Library no. 2044274i is a postcard from the same set

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2044148i

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

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