Box 1
Container
Contains 130 Results:
Mr. Bertin - Imitation de la Belle Otero, 1907
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 12
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
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:
1907
Monsieur R. Bertin dans son Imitation de l'Excentrique "Polaire", 1904
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 13
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
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:
1904
Monsieur R. Bertin - Imitant "La Tortojada", 1904
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 14
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
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:
1904
Mr. Bertin, 1910
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 15
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
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:
1910
Jeanne Bloch, 1910
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 16
Scope and Contents
A comic actress who played both female and male roles in music-hall revues; dressed as a portly, gray-haired, bearded gentleman looking like then President of the French Republic, Armand Fallières. Card No. 308.
Dates:
1910
M. Defreyn (Sarah Yacco), 1903
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 17
Scope and Contents
An operetta star who later developed a recording and film career. In the postcard offered here, Defreyn imitates Sadda Yacco (Kawakami Sadayakko; 1871-1946), a Japanese kabuki artist who performed to audiences in Paris at the turn of the 20th century.
Dates:
1903
Mr D'Hernonville, 1904
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 18
Scope and Contents
A noted music-hall performer who portrayed a series of female singing and speaking roles.
Dates:
1904
Mr. D'Hernonville imitateur, 1904
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 19
Scope and Contents
On verso: Logo of a bridled horse head framed in a horseshoe.
Dates:
1904
Yvette Dolly, 1924
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 20
Scope and Contents
Inscription: Moulin Rouge Paris 27/11/24 / A Myriam mon / bon souvenir / Dolly. Black rubber-stamp impression on verso: Collection J.F.M.
Dates:
1924
Florin Imitateur, 1910
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 21
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
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:
1910