Object details
Accession number
ARC.007620
Creators
Full title
William Amory Gardner Dressed as a Woman with Fan, Hasty Pudding Club, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Creation Date
1884
Language
English
Provenance
Gift of William Amory Gardner.
Marks
Printed (bottom): Pach Bro's Cambridge, Mass.
Inscribed in pencil (bottom): Amory
Inscribed in pencil (upper): 1884 / Wm Amory Gardner
Display Media
Albumen print
Web Commentary
William Amory Gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner’s nephew, stares flirtatiously at the camera from behind a fan in this photograph of him in a dress. William Amory, called WAG by his family and friends, was a member of Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club, the oldest theatrical organization in the United States. When the club was reserved exclusively for men, members would take on the roles of women in the shows, as William Amory did in 1884.
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