Female impersonators
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:
Louis Vernassier, l'homme protée musical dans son Travesti-dame, 1900
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 35
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
Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame, 1905
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 10
Identifier: 93
Scope and Contents
Vernassier was a popular music-hall performer.
Dates:
1905
Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame, 1910
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 10
Identifier: 94
Scope and Contents
Louis Vernassier had a long and prolific career as a music-hall female impersonator whose act involved playing numerous musical instruments (this postcard lists 12 different ones, plus "tous les instruments excentriques").
Dates:
1910
Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical excentrique dans ses Travesti-Dame, 1910
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 10
Identifier: 92
Scope and Contents
Montage of three portraits of Vernassier showing his transformation from middle-aged man to grand dame.
Dates:
1910
Louis Vernassier, l'homme protée musical excentrique dans son travesti-dame jouant, 1907
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 36
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
Louis Vernassier protée musical excentrique dans son travesti-dame, 1910
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 37
Scope and Contents
Inscription: Written in black ink: Mes remerciements. Black rubber-stamp impression of signature: Vernassier L. Paired portaits of Vernassier in men's clothing and in costume as grand dame. Rubber stamp on verso: "Collection J.F.M. Inscribed.
Dates:
1910
M. de Sternac dans son imitation de Mme Sada Yacco, 1907
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 32
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
M. de Sternac dans son imitation de Mme Yvette Guilbert, 1907
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 31
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
M. Defreyn (Sarah Yacco), 1903
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 3
Identifier: 17
Scope and Contents
An operetta star who later developed a recording and film career. In the postcard offered here, Defreyn imitates Sadda Yacco (Kawakami Sadayakko; 1871-1946), a Japanese kabuki artist who performed to audiences in Paris at the turn of the 20th century.
Dates:
1903
M. Pol Simon - dans ses repaides transformations, 1904
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 10
Identifier: 90
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:
1904