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Gelatin silver prints.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 323 Collections and/or Records:

Charly Letsche, 1910

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

Charly Letsche, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 22
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

Chasse-croise, 1900

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 12
Identifier: 107-111
Scope and Contents

Series of 5 postcards number I through V showing an 18th century picnic. The series is highly unusual as the only postcards of the genre documented to date that represent a cross-dressed woman and a man dressed as a man both portraying male roles. Inscription: "Addressed to Mesdemoiselles Bonnet; signed on recto of each card: Henriette."

Dates: 1900

Chavarny, 1904

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 11
Identifier: 98
Scope and Contents

Performer dressed as an 18th-century male aristocrat in a beribboned outfit and an enormous feathered cavalier hat. Inscription at upper left on the photo indicates that Mlle. Chavarny appeared at La Scala, a music hall in the 10th arrondissement of Paris open from 1874 to 1936 where many of the grand stars of the era appeared. Addressed to Isabelle Garon; signature of sender illegible.

Dates: 1904

Chuck Berry

 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: 1972 - 1981

Colin et Jeannette, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 19
Identifier: 316-317
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

Columbia Expedition

 File — Box 25: [Barcode: 31924064933256], Folder: 9
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

Couple in fancy dress, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 19
Identifier: 187
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

Cricket on the Hearth, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 26
Scope and Contents

Based on the indication of the roles noted on the verso, the actors are appearing in a play based on the Charles Dickens novella The Cricket on the Hearth. On verso: Logo of a bridled horse head framed in a horse-­shoe. Pale blue rubber-stamp impression on verso giving name and city of publisher.

Dates: 1910

Curtained object, Date unknown

 File — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924070784586], Folder: 31
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