Box 2
Container
Contains 172 Results:
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
Zambelli et Mante, 1906
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: 228
Scope and Contents
Male impersonator and female dancer dressed in 17th-century costume.
Dates:
1906
Male impersonator in bowler hat and woman in dress, 1910
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: 229
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
A travers les coulisses, 1925
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: 230
Scope and Contents
Female impersonator as a showgirl in her dress room.
Dates:
1925
Male impersonator in men's evening wear and earrings, 1929
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: 231
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:
1929
La Grande Guerre, 1915
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Identifier: 292
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:
1915
Poilu's Park, 1915
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Identifier: 293
Scope and Contents
Inscription includes reference to the type of performance shown on the postcard.
Dates:
1915