Box 1
Contains 130 Results:
Pierrette et Polichinelle, 1900
Same series depicted in cards 333-335.
Illusion's perdues, 1920
Reproduction of a line-drawing caricature: Female impersonator undressing revealed to be a skinny man.
La plus serieuse des Lorientaises, 1917
Mustachioed man dressed as a peasant woman carrying a basket and an umbrella.
Bergere et Berger, 1904 - 1906
Series of two comic postcards of a shepherdess and a shepherd.
Bonne Annee, 1930
Studio photo of a garconne, the French new young women of the 1920s who appropriated a variety of masculine privileges. Includes personal message about health issues, life troubles, hopes to see friend in the coming year."
Bonne Annee, 1907
Woman dressed as a mailman in front of a studio backdrop of a village gate. Divided verso. Publisher given as E.N., card number as 8179. Personal message addressed to “Chère amie” (Félice Pinty) signed Marguerite." Inscription: "New year's greetings to “Ma chère Henriette” at Castle Hall School in Northampton, England; signed “Ton amie qui t’embrasse, Jeanne Lambert”
Bonne Annee, 1913
Woman dressed as a mailman in front of a studio backdrop of a village gate. Same model, costume and set as preceding card, but differing pose. Holding mail.
Bonne Annee, 1909
Woman dressed as a mailman in front of a studio backdrop of a village gate. Same model, costume and set as preceding card, but differing pose. Holding flowers.
Bonne Annee, 1909
Woman dressed as a mailman seen through a painted frame illustrating letters and a mail-carrying case.
Cleodinerie, 1903
Female impersonator wearing a wig, pearls and a flowered tutu posing as a ballerina with arms in fifth position. The card is a spoof of the celebrated dancer and demimondaine Cléo de Mérode (1875-1966). A doggerel verse printed in red on the recto refers to the dancer's charms as designed to "captiver un prince."