Male impersonators
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:
Le Petit Polichinelle, 1908
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 23
Identifier: 340-344
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:
1908
Les Cerises, 1900
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 6
Identifier: 48-57
Scope and Contents
Set of 10 cards with photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene. Originally in a die-cut holder, they are now housed individually in mylar sleeves.
Dates:
1900
Les deux gosses, 1910
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 17
Identifier: 169-171
Scope and Contents
Three postcards (nos. 2, 3 and 4) from a series of unknown length recounting episodes adapted from the melodramatic novel Les Deux gosses (Jules Rouff et Cie., 1880) by the popular author and playwright Pierre Decourcelle (1856-1926). The "two kids" of the title are Fanfan, the son of a diplomat carted off and raised by a married pair of petty criminals, and Claudinet, the ragged natural son of the couple. Decourcelle subsequently adapted the novel as a drama; in an 1896 production at the...
Dates:
1910
Les Soeurs Mante de l'Opera, 1907
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 5
Identifier: 39
Scope and Contents
Suzanne and Blanche Mante, lead dancers for the Opera de Paris, enact a variation of an 18th-century galant scene.
Dates:
1907
L'invitation, 1903
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 13
Identifier: 113, 115-117
Scope and Contents
Set of four cards with photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene. Male impersonator as aristocrat woos a female country girl encountered on a footbridge. The captions recount the tale: “Le Droit de passage,” “L’Invitation,” “Le Beau raisin,” “Le Goûter,” “La Déclaration.” Postage stamp and postmark on recto of each card. Divided verso; notice printed full width indicating “Carte Postale. Tous le pays étrangers n’acceptent pas la correspondence au recto (se renseigner à la poste)....
Dates:
1903
L'invitation, 1900
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 13
Identifier: 114
Scope and Contents
Variant edition of L'Invitation.
Dates:
1900
Ma belle Marquise, 1910
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 6
Identifier: 58-59
Scope and Contents
Set of 2 cards with photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene. Series no. 1549.
Dates:
1910
Mademoiselle, ecoutez-moi donc!, 1910
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 16
Identifier: 161-166
Scope and Contents
Complete series of six postcards showing a amle impersonator approaching a young woman and convincing her to learn how to ride the young man's bicycle. The narrative takes place in front of a painted studio backdrop of a Paris city scene. Each card includes a snippet of dialog between the two characters; the woman identifies herself in one as an "ouvrière dans une grande maison de Modes de la Rue de la Paix." Divided verso; imprinted "a utiliser seulement dans le régime intérieur (FRANCE,...
Dates:
1910
Male and female impersonators in day wear, 1905
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 29
Identifier: 366
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
Male impersonator as 18th-century aristocrat, 1915
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 2
Identifier: 213
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:
1915