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Gelatin silver prints.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 346 Collections and/or Records:

Miss Zena Dare in Peter Pan, 1906

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 8
Identifier: 242
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: 1906
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

Mitzi Kaller, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 55
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 / Named impersonators

Mme Pipelet lit son feuilleton, 1904

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 17
Identifier: 175-177
Scope and Contents

Series of three postcards representing humorous scenes from the daily life of an older woman played by a female impersonator. Addressed to Louise Hautain.

Dates: 1904
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Humor

Molly Poulton, 1900

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 10
Identifier: 259
Scope and Contents

Poulton dressed in white bow tie and top hat.

Dates: 1900
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

Molly Poulton, 1900

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 11
Identifier: 260
Scope and Contents

Poulton dressed in white bow tie and top hat.

Dates: 1900
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

Monte Verdi, 1920

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 33
Scope and Contents

Photographer Maurice Boisdon specialized in theatrical and circus performers, cityscapes and landscapes.

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

Monte Verdi, 1920

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 34
Scope and Contents

Inscription: Du 18e au 20e Siecle.

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

Morocco photographs taken by Neil Winokur, 1973 Request Item

 File — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924070784586], Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

6 black and white photographs, of assorted sizes, of Morocco and JH in Morocco. There are also copy negatives for one of the photographs and a contact sheet of the negatives.

Dates: 1973
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 8062, Janet Hamill archive / Series IV: Photographs

Motion picture stills collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8718
Abstract

Approximately 316 commercial movie stills published between 1931 and 1956, from studios including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Republic Pictures, Warner Brothers, RKO Radio Pictures, Puritan Pictures, Astro Pictures Corp. and 20th Century Fox.

Dates: 1931 - 1956
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Motion picture stills collection

Mr. Bertin, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 2
Identifier: 15
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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