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Male impersonators

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:

Hotel du Chariot d'Or, 1904

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 19
Identifier: 319
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: 1904
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Idylle a Trianon, 1902

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 7
Identifier: 64-66
Scope and Contents

Same series depicted in cards 320-328.

Dates: 1902
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Idylle a trianon, 1902

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 13
Identifier: 118-120
Scope and Contents

Set of three cards with photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene. Male impersonator as officer invites a female aristocrat to dance in a studio-set salon. Numbered I, II and X.

Dates: 1902
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Idylle a Trianon, 1902

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 20
Identifier: 320-328
Scope and Contents

Same series depicted in cards 64-66.

Dates: 1902
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Il m'aime, Un peu, Beaucoup, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 13
Identifier: 121-123
Scope and Contents

Series of three postcards of a woman dressed in late 18th-century officer's wear reacting to declarations from a woman in a dress and flowered hat. The woman is reciting the traditional French equivalent of 'he loves me, he loves me not' while plucking petals from a flower. Cards numbered I, II and III. Each postcard after the first has a rhyming couplet as a caption on the recto.

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

Je suis épris de toi, 1907

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 5
Identifier: 47
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: 1907
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Jeanne Bloch, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 3
Identifier: 16
Scope and Contents

A comic actress who played both female and male roles in music-hall revues; dressed as a portly, gray-haired, bearded gentleman looking like then President of the French Republic, Armand Fallières. Card No. 308.

Dates: 1910
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film

Jeanne Bloch, dans Armand' retour de Londres, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 11
Identifier: 96
Scope and Contents

Comic actor and singer Jeanne Bloch dressed as a portly, bearded man wearing a top hat and carrying a cane. Inscription at upper left on the recto indicates that Bloch was appearing at La Scala, a music hall in Paris open from 1874 to 1936.

Dates: 1910
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film

Jeanne d'Arc, 1903

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 20
Identifier: 195
Scope and Contents

Joan of Arc in a doublet, breastplate and helmet, holding a sword and battle standard against a smoky background. A doggerel verse printed in red at upper left on the recto recounts her victory over the English. Inscription: "Addressed to Jeanne Carlin. Brief unsigned message on recto."

Dates: 1903
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Costume series / Historical Illustrations: Joan of Arc

Jeanne d'Arc, victorieuse des Anglais dilvre Orleans, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 25
Identifier: 347
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 / Costume series / Historical Illustrations: Joan of Arc

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