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Addressed to Mademoiselle Gratecap. Depicts couple dressed in traditional garb of the Poitou region on the west coast of France.

Scope and Contents Three postcards (nos. 2, 3 and 4) from a series of unknown length recounting episodes adapted from the melodramatic novel Les Deux gosses (Jules Rouff et Cie., 1880) by the popular author and playwright Pierre Decourcelle (1856-1926). The "two kids" of the title are Fanfan, the son of a diplomat carted off and raised by a married pair of petty criminals, and Claudinet, the ragged natural son of the couple. Decourcelle subsequently adapted the novel as a drama; in an 1896 production at the...

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Comic postcard of female impersonator in the traditional garb of a Poitevin peasant woman. Addressed to Mademoiselle Legras Nadel.

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Series of two postcards (with card 174) representing scenes and characters from La Mérine à Nastasie (1902), a play by Yann Saint- Acer, written in the Saintongeais dialect of the west coast of France.

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Series of two postcards (with card 173) representing scenes and characters from La Mérine à Nastasie (1902), a play by Yann Saint-Acer, written in the Saintongeais dialect of the west coast of France.

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Series of three postcards representing humorous scenes from the daily life of an older woman played by a female impersonator. Addressed to Louise Hautain.

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Addressed to Auguste Morel. Woman dressed as a chef wearing a toque, men's coat and men's 18th-century kneepants and hose while holding up a fluted cake pan. She leans against a decor suggesting a country kitchen. Printed in red at the bottom of the recto is a recipe for Swiss cake.

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Female impersonator holding a porcelain doll and dressed as a nanny in a lace cap and apron.

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Series of five comic postcards depicting a male impersonator as a woman of Marseilles. Each card has a humorous caption giving a line of dialog. Three cards (numbered 370, 373 and 374), show a fishwife carrying a scale for weighing her goods.

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...