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Male impersonators

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:

Sarah Bernhardt, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 3
Identifier: 218
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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film

Sarah Bernhardt dans L'Aiglon, 1900

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 3
Identifier: 217
Scope and Contents

Divided verso.

Dates: 1900
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film

Sarah Bernhardt dans L'Aiglon, 1903

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 3
Identifier: 219
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: 1903
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film

Shepard and shepardess, 1906

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 14
Identifier: 129-134
Scope and Contents

Complete series of six postcards showing a young woman dressed as an 18th-century shepherd having a lover's spat with a young woman dressed as a shepherdess. Each postcard has one line of a six-line verse offering the dialogue of the lovers.

Dates: 1906
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Theatre des Varietes. Barbe Bleue, 1900

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 11
Identifier: 101
Scope and Contents

Addressed to Rose Bounias; brief message on recto signed P. Paul. Actress dressed as a 17th-century cavalier, likely in the role of one of the brothers in a production of Jacques Offenbach's opera-bouffe Barbe-Bleue (1866).

Dates: 1900
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film / Odeon - Clara Faurens

Theatre Marigny - Deslys, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 4
Identifier: 221
Scope and Contents

Gaby Deslys wearing the costume of a 17th-century male aristocrat.

Dates: 1905
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film

Three muskateers and gardener, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 19
Identifier: 188
Scope and Contents

Postcard of four women: three dressed as 17th-century musketeers and one dressed as a male gardener wearing a work apron and heavy clogs and holding a rake. The two women at the center are the same one who appear in the "Couple in Fancy Dress" postcard, and they are standing in the same garden.

Dates: 1905
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Costume series

Two male impersonators, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 29
Identifier: 369
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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / United Kingdom / Humor

Two male impersonators and one female impersonator, 1910

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 30
Identifier: 377
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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / United Kingdom / Humor

Vesta Tilley, 1903

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 12
Identifier: 266
Scope and Contents

Tilley wearing top hat and carrying walking stick.

Dates: 1903
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / United Kingdom / Music Hall, Theater, and Film

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