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Gelatin silver prints.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 323 Collections and/or Records:

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

Illusion's perdues, 1920

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 9
Identifier: 79
Scope and Contents

Reproduction of a line-drawing caricature: Female impersonator undressing revealed to be a skinny man.

Dates: 1920
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Humor

Images taken at MoMA security office

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113867406], Folder: 3
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Approximately 135 pieces complied by Diego Cortez comprising of material related to both his 1981 No Wave show at PS1 and many of the personalities involved in the artistic and musical scenes of the period, including Jimmy DeSana, James Chance, Anya Phillips, Fab 5 Freddy, Bob Gruen, Robert Gordon, Glenn O'Brien, Legs O'Neil, Ray Johnson, Debbie Harry, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others. The collection also contains concert flyers, photographs, and exhibition materials, including early...
Dates: 1972 - 1981
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 8120, Diego Cortez No Wave Collection / Exhibitions / Xerox and Blood

Jack Whymont, 1920

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 14
Identifier: 281
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

James Chance, 1977

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113867414], Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Unique Polaroid photograph

Dates: 1977
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 8120, Diego Cortez No Wave Collection / Photographs

James Nares, Diego Cortez, East Village, 1976

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113867406], Folder: 15
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Approximately 135 pieces complied by Diego Cortez comprising of material related to both his 1981 No Wave show at PS1 and many of the personalities involved in the artistic and musical scenes of the period, including Jimmy DeSana, James Chance, Anya Phillips, Fab 5 Freddy, Bob Gruen, Robert Gordon, Glenn O'Brien, Legs O'Neil, Ray Johnson, Debbie Harry, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others. The collection also contains concert flyers, photographs, and exhibition materials, including early...
Dates: 1976
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 8120, Diego Cortez No Wave Collection / Photographs

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

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