CC GAY / LESBIAN INT. DRAG QUEEN & BUTCH DRAG 1880-90s CABINET PHOTOGRAPH

 

Thats what it said on e-bay ...

So I looked. Cross-dressing? Looks as if it could be. But maybe not.

BEATRICE MAY ('Bertie') TRUCKLE b New Cross 16 February 1875; d Tiverton 13 May 1943

married Edward Ernest GANE (traveller for timber importer). One son, one daughter.

PERCY LIONEL TRUCKLE b Brixton 3 April 1879; d 39 Hatton Gardens, Mitcham 14 July 1947

married Marie Valentina COWARD. 

The youngest of the five surviving children of George Truckle (1842-1907), photographer. Who probably took the photo. When? Around 1890? 

I see George operated at some stage from New Bond Street ...

Then he became 'and sons'. Well, he only had two ... so that's George Edwin and Percy ...

Does this card look as if an 's' has been squeezed in after 'son'

 

I see from the 1911 census that George Edwin didnt stick with photograph ('cashier for a cigar merchant'), but Percy did .... until he went to the war as a sapper in the Royal Engineers ...

Anyway, it looks as if this picture is a couple of young teenagers larking about in dad's studio. Nothing very gay or lesbian about it ... just a bit of fun with the fancy-dress box ... with a photo, of course, thrown in.  Chuckle, I wonder what they'd have thought had they known that over a century later ...