Male impersonators
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:
Miss Gertie Millar, 1905
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 10
Identifier: 256
Scope and Contents
Promotional postcard for a 1905 London musical The Spring Chicken.
Dates:
1905
Miss Hettie King, 1905
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 9
Identifier: 248
Scope and Contents
King wearing suit and boater hat.
Dates:
1905
Miss Hetty King, 1909
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 9
Identifier: 246
Scope and Contents
King wearing day suit and top hat.
Dates:
1909
Miss Hetty King, 1907
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 9
Identifier: 247
Scope and Contents
King wearing suit and boater hat.
Dates:
1907
Miss Hetty King, 1910
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 9
Identifier: 249
Scope and Contents
King wearing braided coat and cap with chin strap.
Dates:
1910
Miss Hetty King, 1910
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 9
Identifier: 250
Scope and Contents
King dressed as military officer.
Dates:
1910
Miss Hetty King says when you go home - follow the tram lines., 1910
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 9
Identifier: 252
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, cafeĢ-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
Miss Rita Leggiero as "Little Hal" in "A White Man", 1908
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 10
Identifier: 254
Scope and Contents
Promotional postcard for the 1908 London production of A White Man at the Lyric Theatre.
Dates:
1908
Miss Sybil Arnudale, 1909
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 8
Identifier: 235
Scope and Contents
Male impersonator dressed as 18th-century male aristocrat.
Dates:
1909
Miss Vesta Tilley, 1903
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 12
Identifier: 267
Scope and Contents
Tilley wearing top hat and carrying walking stick.
Dates:
1903