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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