Photographs and postcards of gender collection
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.
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
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu