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Female impersonators

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:

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

Der Marketendersepple, 1903

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 26
Identifier: 258
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: 1903

Dulmen Theatre du camp. "Le Veilleur de Nuit." (1 acte), 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 17
Identifier: 295
Scope and Contents

Production of 1911 play by Sacha Guitry by French prisoners at the Dulmen POW camp in North Rhine - Westphalia.

Dates: 1915

English POW theatrical, 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 18
Identifier: 309

English Theater, 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 18
Identifier: 306

English Theater, Lager Cottbus. Miss Russon, J.A. Butler, 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 18
Identifier: 303

Female impersonator as Edwardian bride, 1910

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 8
Identifier: 237
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

Female impersonator carrying jug, 1910

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 5
Identifier: 227
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