Collotypes (prints)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 103 Collections and/or Records:
Amour en Bretagne-les premiers baisers, 1910
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 25
Identifier: 348
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
Amoureux Viennois, 1905
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 15
Identifier: 151
Scope and Contents
One postcard (no. 3) from a series of unknown length representing a woman dressed as a male officer in a braided uniform. The officer kisses the hand of a seated woman wearing a braided dress designed to echo the uniform.
Dates:
1905
Argentan - Nanette, v'la l'marchand d'noisettes, 1910
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 25
Identifier: 351
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
Asta, 1914
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 6
Scope and Contents
Inscribed.
Dates:
1914
Asta, 1910
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 53
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
Cleodinerie, 1903
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 16
Identifier: 160
Scope and Contents
Female impersonator wearing a wig, pearls and a flowered tutu posing as a ballerina with arms in fifth position. The card is a spoof of the celebrated dancer and demimondaine Cléo de Mérode (1875-1966). A doggerel verse printed in red on the recto refers to the dancer's charms as designed to "captiver un prince."
Dates:
1903
Costumes poitevins, 1909
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 17
Identifier: 168
Scope and Contents
Addressed to Mademoiselle Gratecap. Depicts couple dressed in traditional garb of the Poitou region on the west coast of France.
Dates:
1909
Couple with fan and top hat, 1900
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 10
Identifier: 81
Scope and Contents
A promotional photo for a music-hall act. The only postcard in the collection that features performers of color. Publisher's monogram on recto.
Dates:
1900
Damimitator John Graffton, 1910
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 21
Identifier: 205
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
Damimitator John Graffton, 1905
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 7
Identifier: 233
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