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Contains 130 Results:

M.R. Bertin - Imitation de Mlle Lydia, 1907

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 87
Scope and Contents

Publisher's name indicated in circular black rubberstamp impression on recto.

Dates: 1907

M.R. Bertin - Imitation de Mme Ouvrard, 1907

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 88
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. Pol Simon - dans ses repaides transformations, 1904

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 90
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

La Tolosa, 1910

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 91
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

Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical excentrique dans ses Travesti-Dame, 1910

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 92
Scope and Contents

Montage of three portraits of Vernassier showing his transformation from middle-aged man to grand dame.

Dates: 1910

Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame, 1905

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 93
Scope and Contents

Vernassier was a popular music-hall performer.

Dates: 1905

Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame, 1910

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 94
Scope and Contents

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").

Dates: 1910

L'Aiglon - Mme Sarah Bernhardt - Scene de Wagram, 1902

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 95
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1902

Jeanne Bloch, dans Armand' retour de Londres, 1910

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 96
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1910