Female impersonators
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:
Female Impersonators, 1900-1920
Series — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
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:
1900-1920
Female impersonators Ben and Jim Obo, 1920
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 10
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:
1920
Female impersonators in 17th century costumes, 1905
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 19
Identifier: 191
Scope and Contents
Postcard showing eight men in 17th-century costumes, including two female impersonators. All are posed in front of a brick wall in a garden.
Dates:
1905
Female impersonators in costume, 1905
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 19
Identifier: 192
Scope and Contents
Postcard showing ten men in a variety of costumes, including four dressed as women in dresses and wigs. All are posed in front of an exterior wall.
Dates:
1905
Female impersonators posing with a touring car, 1905
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 19
Identifier: 190
Scope and Contents
Postcard showing nine men posing in front of an open touring car on an estate with trees and buildings in the background. The man at the center is dressed as a grand society woman in a travel outfit including a heavy coat, flowered hat, fur muff and pocketbook. The men surrounding her are dressed in various costumes, including one likely as a chauffer, one as a butler with feather duster, one with a crêpe-de-chine false beard, and others in worker's coats and caps.
Dates:
1905
Flamenco dancers and aristocrats, 1905
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 19
Identifier: 193
Scope and Contents
Postcard showing five men in costume, including two as a male-female couple of flamenco dancers and two as a male-female couple of 18th-century French aristocrats.
Dates:
1905
Florin Imitateur, 1910
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 3
Identifier: 21
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
Florin Imitateur, 1910
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 3
Identifier: 22
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
Florin Imitateur, 1910
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 3
Identifier: 23
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
Fred Emney, 1910
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 8
Identifier: 243
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