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People at Rickmansworth, Herts., some in drag, gather outside at a swimmming gala. Photographic postcard, 1908. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Four of the men wear fancy costumes, the one in the centre is dressed as a pierrot, and there are also children within the crowd. Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, swimming sports gala, 1908. Two men are dragged up as suffragettes, wearing sashes supporting votes for women
Print catalogued was postally sent from Rickmansworth to Newport on 1 August 1908 with message saying that "..they swam in these costumes, and the man dressed as a woman had first prize"
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