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Collotypes (prints)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 103 Collections and/or Records:

Pierrot et Columbine, 1900

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 22
Identifier: 336-339
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: 1900

Poilu's Park, 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 16
Identifier: 293
Scope and Contents

Inscription includes reference to the type of performance shown on the postcard.

Dates: 1915

Poilu's-Park, La Grande Divette, 1915

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 1
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents

French World War I soldier posed outdoors wearing a female gypsy costume. Black rubber-stamp impression on verso: "Collection J.F.M.

Dates: 1915

Poilu's-Park, Les Poilus Bert-Gyll et Mezy duettistes a transformations, 1915

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

Costumes de la Maison Granier. The two cards offered here represent Poilu's Park, an amusement park for French and allied soldiers that operated from 1915 to 1916 in Commercy.

Dates: 1915

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

Probasta, das psychologische Ratsel, 1900

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 35

Racettes de friandises - Gateau Suisse, 1900

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 18
Identifier: 178
Scope and Contents

Addressed to Auguste Morel. Woman dressed as a chef wearing a toque, men's coat and men's 18th-century kneepants and hose while holding up a fluted cake pan. She leans against a decor suggesting a country kitchen. Printed in red at the bottom of the recto is a recipe for Swiss cake.

Dates: 1900

Rudi Rufino, Imitateur de la Soubrette?, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 24
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