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Photographs and postcards of gender collection

 Collection — manuscript box: 84 - folder 1
Identifier: 7717

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

A collection of photographs and postcards from various sources, primarily of unidentified people by unidentified photographers that show women and men in various homosocial or heterosocial poses or in gender normative or transgressive dress or behavior. Together, they give visual documentation of how gender has been expressed by body language, dress and other visual clues.

Dates

  • [ca. 1900-1960]

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

1 folders. (1 folders.)

Abstract

A collection of photographs and postcards from various sources, primarily of unidentified people by unidentified photographers that show women and men in various homosocial or heterosocial poses or in gender normative or transgressive dress or behavior. Together, they give visual documentation of how gender has been expressed by body language, dress and other visual clues.

RELATED MATERIALS

Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection.

Related collection: Photographs and postcards of women collection, #7678.

Physical Description

Postcards.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Brenda Marston
EAD encoding:
Andrea Hektor, May 2004
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Brenda Marston
Date
May 27, 2004
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)