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 Container

Contains 130 Results:

Cricket on the Hearth, 1910

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 26
Scope and Contents

Based on the indication of the roles noted on the verso, the actors are appearing in a play based on the Charles Dickens novella The Cricket on the Hearth. On verso: Logo of a bridled horse head framed in a horse-­shoe. Pale blue rubber-stamp impression on verso giving name and city of publisher.

Dates: 1910

Marthis??, 1910

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 27
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

Maurice homme protee, 1907

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 28
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

Maurice l'homme protee, 1910

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 29
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

Novelty's imitateur a transformations, 1915

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 30
Scope and Contents

Full length photo of a man in showgirl dress; vignette headshot of same performer in white tie.

Dates: 1915

M. de Sternac dans son imitation de Mme Yvette Guilbert, 1907

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 31
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

M. de Sternac dans son imitation de Mme Sada Yacco, 1907

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 32
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

Monte Verdi, 1920

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 33
Scope and Contents

Photographer Maurice Boisdon specialized in theatrical and circus performers, cityscapes and landscapes.

Dates: 1920

Monte Verdi, 1920

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 34

Louis Vernassier, l'homme protée musical dans son Travesti-dame, 1900

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 35
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: 1900