Female impersonators
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 119 Collections and/or Records:
Photographs of men in women's formal gowns
Collection — Manuscript box 86 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070576503]
Identifier: 7881
Dates:
1972-11
Poilu's Park, 1915
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 16
Identifier: 293
Scope and Contents
Inscription includes reference to the type of performance shown on the postcard.
Dates:
1915
Poilu's-Park, La Grande Divette, 1915
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 1
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents
French World War I soldier posed outdoors wearing a female gypsy costume. Black rubber-stamp impression on verso: "Collection J.F.M.
Dates:
1915
Poilu's-Park, Les Poilus Bert-Gyll et Mezy duettistes a transformations, 1915
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 1
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents
Costumes de la Maison Granier. The two cards offered here represent Poilu's Park, an amusement park for French and allied soldiers that operated from 1915 to 1916 in Commercy.
Dates:
1915
Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing
Collection
Identifier: 7778
Abstract
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:
1900-1931, 1955
Russ Theater, Lager Cottbus, 1915
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 18
Identifier: 305
Scope and Contents
POW theatrical. Inscribed.
Dates:
1915
Sweet sixteen and never been kissed, 1905
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 29
Identifier: 363
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
The English Theatre, 1915
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 17
Identifier: 296
Scope and Contents
POW theatrical by prisonors of camp in Langensalza, Germany. Captions in Frnech, English and Russian.
Dates:
1915
The English Theatre, 1915
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 17
Identifier: 297
Scope and Contents
POW theatrical by prisonors of camp in Langensalza, Germany. Captions in Frnech, English and Russian.
Dates:
1915
The English Theatre, 1915
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 17
Identifier: 298
Scope and Contents
POW theatrical by prisonors of camp in Langensalza, Germany. Captions in Frnech, English and Russian.
Dates:
1915