Female impersonators Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton. This photograph taken less than a year before their arrest by the Metropolitan Police for "conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence".
<p>The original photograph is held by the Essex Record Office and an un-restored scan made available on their blog in February 2013. The photograph was used as a full page spread in Attitude (a UK gay lifestyle magazine) in August 2013, issue 234 and appears in a cropped form but otherwise unaltered in the book "Fanny &amp; Stella, The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England" (2013) <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780571231904" title="Special:BookSources/9780571231904">ISBN 9780571231904</a>.
</p><p><b>Digital restoration</b>
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<ul><li>The glass plate original had a major break in the upper left side, this has been realigned with the cracks masked.</li>
<li>The bottom right corner was missing, this has been recreated.</li>
<li>Other minor voids and some of the most distracting dirt and scratches have been replaced.</li>
<li>Exposure and light balance are left unchanged.</li></ul>
Frederick Spalding (1830-1895). Digital restoration by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:F%C3%A6" title="User:Fæ">Fæ</a>.
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Restored version of <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/frederick-park-and-ernest-boulton-aka-fanny-and-stella/">http://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/frederick-park-and-ernest-boulton-aka-fanny-and-stella/</a>. Essex Record Office reference D/F 269/1/3712.