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Female impersonators

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 119 Collections and/or Records:

A travers les coulisses, 1925

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 5
Identifier: 230
Scope and Contents

Female impersonator as a showgirl in her dress room.

Dates: 1925

Albertin celebre imitateur, 1910

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

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

Arigon - Imitateur, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 1
Identifier: 2
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

Baroness and Baron, Cinderella, Brixton Theatre, 1910

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 8
Identifier: 240
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

Bertin, 1900

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 10
Identifier: 85
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

Bertin - Imitant la Tortojada, 1907

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 2
Identifier: 5
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

British female-impersonation revue programs

 Collection — Manuscript box 86 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070577998]
Identifier: 7889
Abstract

Programs from two British provincial theaters for female-impersonation revues—one in 1952 carrying on the tradition of pre-war music-hall performance and wartime troop shows, and one in 1968 displaying more queer overtones. "Ralph Marshall Presents Forces in Petticoats" (Edinburgh: Moss' Empire Theatre, 1952) and "King Shaw Productions Ltd. Present an All Male Revue 'Boys Will Be Girls'" (Stratford: Theatre Royal, 1968).

Dates: 1952; 1968

Ca sent la fuite!! Revue de A. Delarue, 1918

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 17
Identifier: 294
Scope and Contents

POW theatrical. Markings includes censor's clearance stamp.

Dates: 1918

Chinese Actor impersonating a female character, Chinese Theatre, 623 Jackosn Street, San Francisco, 1906

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 15
Identifier: 291
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: 1906