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Female impersonators

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Troops and POW shows, WWI

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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film

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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film

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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing

Russ Theater, Lager Cottbus, 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 18
Identifier: 305
Scope and Contents

POW theatrical. Inscribed.

Dates: 1915
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / Germany / Troops and POW shows, WWI

Sweet sixteen and never been kissed, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 29
Identifier: 363
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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / United Kingdom / Humor

The English Theatre, 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 17
Identifier: 296
Scope and Contents

POW theatrical by prisonors of camp in Langensalza, Germany. Captions in Frnech, English and Russian.

Dates: 1915
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / Germany / Troops and POW shows, WWI

The English Theatre, 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 17
Identifier: 297
Scope and Contents

POW theatrical by prisonors of camp in Langensalza, Germany. Captions in Frnech, English and Russian.

Dates: 1915
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / Germany / Troops and POW shows, WWI

The English Theatre, 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 17
Identifier: 298
Scope and Contents

POW theatrical by prisonors of camp in Langensalza, Germany. Captions in Frnech, English and Russian.

Dates: 1915
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / Germany / Troops and POW shows, WWI

The French Fregoli Emile Grandsart "Original Transformist", 1900

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 4
Identifier: 224
Scope and Contents

Music-hall protean performer Emile Grandsart, whose act involved costume quick-changes into both female and male characters.

Dates: 1900
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film

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