Male impersonators
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:
La femme avocat, 1900
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 25
Identifier: 353
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:
1900
La Matchiche, 1908
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 5
Identifier: 40-41
Scope and Contents
Set of two postcards portraying the De Tender sisters, both music-hall performers. Alice de Tender appeared at the Folies-Bergere, the Eldorado and the Moulin Rouge; she also appeared in silent films, including the feature La Veuve Joyeuse (1913) and a number of shorts. "La Matchiche"was a popular song debuted in a music-hall show in 1902; the painter Kees van Dongen borrowed the title for a 1904 oil representing dancers at the bal populaire Le Moulin de la Galette (collection of the Musee...
Dates:
1908
La ronde du garde champetre, 1904
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 23
Identifier: 345
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
L'Abbe, les fiances, 1905
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 10
Identifier: 82-83
Scope and Contents
Same series depicted in cards 311-313.
Dates:
1905
L'Abbe, les fiances, 1905
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], 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: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 19
Identifier: 313
Scope and Contents
Same series depicted in cards 82-83 and 311-312.
Dates:
1904
L'Aiglon - Mme Sarah Bernhardt - Scene de Wagram, 1902
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 11
Identifier: 95
Scope and Contents
Inscription: Addressed to Mlle Marguerite Beaujean. Black-and-white reproduction of a watercolor illustration signed Espinasse. Sarah Bernhardt appearing in one of her most celebrated trouser roles as the son of Napoleon in La Aiglon (1900) by playwright Edmond Rostand, who wrote the role for her.
Dates:
1902
Le Galant Gondolier, 1904
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 19
Identifier: 318
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
Le Marquis Amoureux, 1904
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 14
Identifier: 124-128
Scope and Contents
Complete series of five postcards showing a woman dressed as an 18th-century marquis courting another woman dressed as a female aristocrat, ending with a scene of the marquis stealing a kiss.
Dates:
1904
Le Petit Colporteur, 1905
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 21
Identifier: 331-332
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