Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Os01-121. Photo from an album (UoB reference Os01) kept in the School of Oriental and African Studies Archives, London (SOAS reference MS 380 876/1). ‘Aladdin’ is a folk tale in ‘The Book of One Thousand and One Nights’ (‘The Arabian Nights’).  Although Aladdin is a Middle Eastern tale, the story is set in China.  It has long been a popular pantomime.  Photograph probably taken in Foochow (Fuzhou).

Caption in album or on mount

Burlesque of Alladin

Estimated Date

1880-1890

Tags

• fashion
• garden
• humour
• humor
• costume
• theatre
• theater
• actor
• drama
• performance
• Oswald
• burlesque
• amateur dramatics
• man in drag

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London

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