Billie Manders in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Manders was a popular Rhyl-based female impersonator: he and his troupe 'The Quaintesques' were concert party entertainers from the early 1920's right up to World War II. Billie was a performer from a very early age and a a pioneer of 'glamour drag', presenting a less exaggerated female appearance.

Billie Manders wearing a metallic lace dress and holding a fan. A more mature photograph from the late 1920s. He carries a huge fan of extended ostrich feathers. Fans of this very large size were often used by burlesque 'striptease' dancers.

Leeds : Repro Fielding, [between 1920 and 1929?]

1 photographic postcard ; 14 x 9 cm

Mr. Billie Manders. Lettering printed in black on bottom recto

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Wellcome Collection 2044947i