Gelatin silver prints.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 323 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Liseron Parisiana, 1915
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 11
Identifier: 102
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Stage and silent-film actor Clara Faurens appearing at the Theatre de la'Odeon (Paris) in the role of Pierrot, the commedia della arte stock figure of the lovesick clown. Inscribed verso: Brief note to Jeanne Gorno signed E. Hacquet.
Dates:
1915
? Luzernow ?, 1905
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 9
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:
1905