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Gelatin silver prints.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 346 Collections and/or Records:

Two female impersonators dancing, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 40
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

Two female impersonators dancing, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 41
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

Two male impersonators, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 29
Identifier: 369
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

Two male impersonators and one female impersonator, 1910

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 30
Identifier: 377
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

United States Army School of Military Aeronautics at Cornell University Class of February 2, 1918 Class Photograph, 1918-02-02

 Item — Manuscript box 58 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113866713]
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, financial reports, curricula, inventories, photographs, weekly reports, lists of students, subject files, and other records of the School at Cornell University. Includes registrar cards for students. Photographs include composites, Cornell University cadets during training maneuvers held at Enfield Glen, Tompkins County, New York. Includes a picture of Ray June of Ithaca, New York wearing a World War I uniform. Also, a glass plate positive of an aerial view of a stadium,...
Dates: 1918-02-02

United States Army School of Military Aeronautics at Cornell University Class of March 2, 1918 Class Photograph, 1918-03-02

 Item — Manuscript box 58 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113866713]
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, financial reports, curricula, inventories, photographs, weekly reports, lists of students, subject files, and other records of the School at Cornell University. Includes registrar cards for students. Photographs include composites, Cornell University cadets during training maneuvers held at Enfield Glen, Tompkins County, New York. Includes a picture of Ray June of Ithaca, New York wearing a World War I uniform. Also, a glass plate positive of an aerial view of a stadium,...
Dates: 1918-03-02

Untitled, 1980

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113867406], Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Gift of artist to Diego Cortez. Taken by Gruen at the Club Fez, in the East Village at a poetry reading in which all the subjects pictured read.

Dates: 1980

Untitled (Self-portrait w/ flash), 1977

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113867406], Folder: 16
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: 1977

Vesta Tilley, 1903

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 12
Identifier: 266
Scope and Contents

Tilley wearing top hat and carrying walking stick.

Dates: 1903