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Collotypes (prints)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 103 Collections and/or Records:

Le trousseau e Rosalie, 1910

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 25
Identifier: 356
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

Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 10
Identifier: 93
Scope and Contents

Vernassier was a popular music-hall performer.

Dates: 1905

Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 10
Identifier: 94
Scope and Contents

Louis Vernassier had a long and prolific career as a music-hall female impersonator whose act involved playing numerous musical instruments (this postcard lists 12 different ones, plus "tous les instruments excentriques").

Dates: 1910

Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical excentrique dans ses Travesti-Dame, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 10
Identifier: 92
Scope and Contents

Montage of three portraits of Vernassier showing his transformation from middle-aged man to grand dame.

Dates: 1910

Louis Vernassier, l'homme protée musical excentrique dans son travesti-dame jouant, 1907

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 36
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: 1907

Louis Vernassier protée musical excentrique dans son travesti-dame, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 37
Scope and Contents

Inscription: Written in black ink: Mes remerciements. Black rubber-stamp impression of signature: Vernassier L. Paired portaits of Vernassier in men's clothing and in costume as grand dame. Rubber stamp on verso: "Collection J.F.M. Inscribed.

Dates: 1910

? Luzernow ?, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 7
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

? Luzernow ?, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 8
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

Luzernow - Chansonetten-Darsteller, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 10

M. de Sternac dans son imitation de Mme Sada Yacco, 1907

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 32
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: 1907