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Box 2

 Container

Contains 191 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

Amourette Louis XV, 1905

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Identifier: 310
Scope and Contents

Same image in card 149. Same series depicted in cards 67-68, and 146-150.

Dates: 1905

L'Abbe, les fiances, 1905

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Identifier: 311-312
Scope and Contents

Same series depicted in cards 82-83 and 313.

Dates: 1905

L'Abbe, les fiances, 1904

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Identifier: 313
Scope and Contents

Same series depicted in cards 82-83 and 311-312.

Dates: 1904

Notre amour cherchait le mystere, 1907

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Identifier: 314
Scope and Contents

Same characters and setting as portrayed in card 315.

Dates: 1907

Ce petit coin tranquille, 1905

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Identifier: 315
Scope and Contents

Same characters and setting as portrayed in card 314.

Dates: 1905