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Gelatin silver prints.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 323 Collections and/or Records:

Female impersonator with headpiece, 1900

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 19
Scope and Contents

Inscribed.

Dates: 1900
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7636, Postcards of German female impersonators / Female Impersonators / Unidentified impersonators

Female impersonators Ben and Jim Obo, 1920

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 10
Identifier: 258
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: 1920
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

Female impersonators in 17th century costumes, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 19
Identifier: 191
Scope and Contents

Postcard showing eight men in 17th-century costumes, including two female impersonators. All are posed in front of a brick wall in a garden.

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

Female impersonators in costume, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 19
Identifier: 192
Scope and Contents

Postcard showing ten men in a variety of costumes, including four dressed as women in dresses and wigs. All are posed in front of an exterior wall.

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

Female impersonators posing with a touring car, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 19
Identifier: 190
Scope and Contents

Postcard showing nine men posing in front of an open touring car on an estate with trees and buildings in the background. The man at the center is dressed as a grand society woman in a travel outfit including a heavy coat, flowered hat, fur muff and pocketbook. The men surrounding her are dressed in various costumes, including one likely as a chauffer, one as a butler with feather duster, one with a crêpe-de-chine false beard, and others in worker's coats and caps.

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

Ferri Verdini, 1900

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 21
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Sixty-two late-Wilhelmine female impersonator postcards portraying thirty individuals in their Damen-Imitator personas, including three photographs of "Gauze, Canadian Indian Soprano." Sixteen are signed or inscribed by the subjects, with references to gay cabarets in Berlin, Cologne, Kiel, and throughout the country. Five are addressed to Paul Shafer and one to Asta, female impersonators of the period, who are also pictured on some of the cards. One postcard depicts Man de Wirth in costume,...
Dates: 1900
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7636, Postcards of German female impersonators / Female Impersonators / Paul Schafer

Ferri Verdini, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 38
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Sixty-two late-Wilhelmine female impersonator postcards portraying thirty individuals in their Damen-Imitator personas, including three photographs of "Gauze, Canadian Indian Soprano." Sixteen are signed or inscribed by the subjects, with references to gay cabarets in Berlin, Cologne, Kiel, and throughout the country. Five are addressed to Paul Shafer and one to Asta, female impersonators of the period, who are also pictured on some of the cards. One postcard depicts Man de Wirth in costume,...
Dates: 1910
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7636, Postcards of German female impersonators / Female Impersonators / Paul Schafer

First ski club of Ithaca, 1890-1938

 File — Box 27: [Barcode: 31924064698891], Folder: 67
Scope and Contents

1938 letter from Charles Blair describing membership in A.S.E. at Ithaca High School and 1890 photograph mounted on cardstock of possible first ski club in US. Fuertes is a member.

Dates: 1890-1938
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 2662, Louis Agassiz Fuertes papers / Series V. Photographic Materials / Photographs and 35mm slides

Flamenco dancers and aristocrats, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 19
Identifier: 193
Scope and Contents

Postcard showing five men in costume, including two as a male-female couple of flamenco dancers and two as a male-female couple of 18th-century French aristocrats.

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

Florin Imitateur, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 3
Identifier: 21
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 / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film

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