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Gelatin silver prints.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 346 Collections and/or Records:

Portrait of Janet Hamill, Date unknown Request Item

 File — Box 11: [Barcode: 31924070785492], Folder: 1
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: The Janet Hamill Archive contains extensive materials that document the life and work of Janet Hamill. The archive additionally illuminates Hamill's unique relationship with her longtime friend, poet, writer, singer-songwriter and artist Patti Smith. Included are correspondence (approximately 380 letters), manuscripts, journals, notebooks, diaries (several thousand pages dated 1967-2007) and photographs documenting Hamill's work. Also included are materials pertaining to Patti Smith...
Dates: Date unknown

Portraits of Louis Agassiz Fuertes Request Item

 File — Box 25: [Barcode: 31924064933256], Folder: 10

Postcards, early 1900s Request Item

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088355692], Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Three postcards: a German postcard, a photographic postcard of two women on a porch, and a photographic postcard of two women within the arms of a third.

Dates: early 1900s

Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing

 Collection
Identifier: 7778
Abstract 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: 1900-1931, 1955

Postcards of German female impersonators

 Collection
Identifier: 7636
Abstract Sixty-two late-Wilhelmine male transvestite postcards portraying thirty individuals in their Damen-Imitator personas, including three images 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, circa...
Dates: 1900-1920

Prince Waldemar and Prince George photographs

 Collection — Manuscript box 86 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070576511]
Identifier: 7885
Abstract

Photograph portraits of Prince Waldemar of Denmark and Prince George of Greece.

Dates: 1900 - 1905

Prints documenting Cortez's gallery exhibition 'Cataratta Riflesso Rosso' at Galleria Trisorio

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113867406], Folder: 6
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

P.S.1 Performance, 1979

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113867406], Folder: 18
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: 1979

Pyramid Peak in Summer

 Item — Box 29: [Barcode: 31924065226106], Folder: 11
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Includes correspondence, often illustrated and including anecdotes and descriptions of expeditions, with ornithologists, fellow artists, and naturalists, especially on the subject of bird coloration and "concealing coloration"; personal correspondence on the Savage Club of Ithaca; and letters to his daughter, Mary Fuertes Boynton, from Fuertes' friends and colleagues about Fuertes and his work. Student notes, notebooks, journals and sketchbooks; diaries; journals from expeditions, many...
Dates: 1892 - 1954; Majority of material found within 1892 - 1927