Box 2
Container
Contains 172 Results:
Sarah Bernhardt, 1905
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: 218
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:
1905
Sarah Bernhardt dans L'Aiglon, 1903
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: 219
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:
1903
de Brives (Varietes), 1905
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: 220
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:
1905
Theatre Marigny - Deslys, 1905
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: 221
Scope and Contents
Gaby Deslys wearing the costume of a 17th-century male aristocrat.
Dates:
1905
Miss Gaby Deslys, 1915
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: 222
Scope and Contents
Gaby Deslys dressed in men's evening wear. The image was produced as a promotion for Deslys' appearing in London in Rosy Rapture, a one-act play by J.M. Barrie.
Dates:
1915
Marise Fairy, 1910
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: 223
Scope and Contents
Marise Fairy in the role of Buster Brown from the Revue de Marigny, a music-hall show presented at the Theatre de Marigny in Paris.
Dates:
1910
The French Fregoli Emile Grandsart "Original Transformist", 1900
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: 224
Scope and Contents
Music-hall protean performer Emile Grandsart, whose act involved costume quick-changes into both female and male characters.
Dates:
1900
Monsieur D'Hernonville, le Merveilleux Protee Feminin, 1910
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: 225
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
Minouche, 1955
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: 226
Scope and Contents
Studio shot of Minouche, one of the stars of Madame Arthur, a leading female-impersonation cabaret of Paris in the 1950s and 1960s. In this photograph, Minouche, who was white, impersonates a black performer in the style of Eartha Kitt.
Dates:
1955
Female impersonator carrying jug, 1910
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: 227
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