Box 1
Contains 130 Results:
M.R. Bertin - Imitation de Mlle Lydia, 1907
Publisher's name indicated in circular black rubberstamp impression on recto.
M.R. Bertin - Imitation de Mme Ouvrard, 1907
Monsieur (et non Mademoiselle!) Thon Lind, 1927
Stamped and mailed in France.
M. Pol Simon - dans ses repaides transformations, 1904
La Tolosa, 1910
Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical excentrique dans ses Travesti-Dame, 1910
Montage of three portraits of Vernassier showing his transformation from middle-aged man to grand dame.
Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame, 1905
Vernassier was a popular music-hall performer.
Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame, 1910
Louis Vernassier had a long and prolific career as a music-hall female impersonator whose act involved playing numerous musical instruments (this postcard lists 12 different ones, plus "tous les instruments excentriques").
L'Aiglon - Mme Sarah Bernhardt - Scene de Wagram, 1902
Inscription: Addressed to Mlle Marguerite Beaujean. Black-and-white reproduction of a watercolor illustration signed Espinasse. Sarah Bernhardt appearing in one of her most celebrated trouser roles as the son of Napoleon in La Aiglon (1900) by playwright Edmond Rostand, who wrote the role for her.
Jeanne Bloch, dans Armand' retour de Londres, 1910
Comic actor and singer Jeanne Bloch dressed as a portly, bearded man wearing a top hat and carrying a cane. Inscription at upper left on the recto indicates that Bloch was appearing at La Scala, a music hall in Paris open from 1874 to 1936.