Koskovich, Gerard
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Cross-dressed French prisoner of war postcards
Collection — Manuscript box 86 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113451342]
Identifier: 7795
Abstract
Photographic postcards of French soldiers held as prisoners of war in German internment camps during World War I. Two of the postcards have "Kriegsgefangenensendung" (prisoner of war communication) and the name of the internment camp, the Neues Lager at Königsbruck in Saxony, printed on the back. Both are dated and addressed from René Bossion, a member of the 4th Infantry Batallion, one addressed to Albert Bossion and one to Marie Louise Bossion in Lorient, France, but neither card bears a...
Dates:
1914-1916 November 9, 1945; undated
Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing
Collection
Identifier: 7778
Abstract
Postcards portraying cross-dressing and female and male impersonators in France, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Belgium, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Italy, and Romania. Postcards include photographic and photomechanical prints, some hand-colored. All are printed between circa 1900 and 1930 and depict performers on amateur, café-concert, music-hall, and legitimate stages at the high-point of cross-dressing as a form of entertainment. Many depict gallant visual narratives of...
Dates:
1900-1931, 1955
Filtered By
- Subject: Germany. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Austria. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Breeches parts -- Europe. 1
- Collotypes (prints) 1
- Courtship -- Europe -- Pictorial works. 1
- Cross-dressers 1
- Europe. 1
- Female impersonators 1
- France. 1
- Gelatin silver prints. 1
- Gender identity -- Europe -- Pictorial works. 1
- Germany. 1
- Great Britain. 1
- Italy. 1
- Lesbian couples -- Europe -- Pictorial works. 1
- Male impersonators 1
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Europe. 1
- Postcards. 1
- Prisoners of war -- France. 1
- Prisoners of war -- Germany. 1
- Relief halftones (prints) 1
- Romania. 1
- Sex in popular culture -- Europe -- Pictorial works. 1
- Soldiers -- Germany -- Portraits. 1
- Spain. 1
- Theater -- Europe -- Pictorial works. 1
- Transvestism -- Europe -- Pictorial works. 1
- Transvestism -- Germany. 1
- Transvestites -- Europe. 1
- United States 1
- Women peasants -- Europe. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. 1 + ∧ less
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