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Female impersonators

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:

Male and female impersonators in day wear, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 29
Identifier: 366
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

Marthis??, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 27
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

Maurice homme protee, 1907

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 28
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

Maurice l'homme protee, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 29
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

Melle (Deux-sevres) - Paysanne poitevine, 1900

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 17
Identifier: 172
Scope and Contents

Comic postcard of female impersonator in the traditional garb of a Poitevin peasant woman. Addressed to Mademoiselle Legras Nadel.

Dates: 1900

Minouche, 1955

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 5
Identifier: 226
Scope and Contents

Studio shot of Minouche, one of the stars of Madame Arthur, a leading female-impersonation cabaret of Paris in the 1950s and 1960s. In this photograph, Minouche, who was white, impersonates a black performer in the style of Eartha Kitt.

Dates: 1955

Mme Pipelet lit son feuilleton, 1904

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 17
Identifier: 175-177
Scope and Contents

Series of three postcards representing humorous scenes from the daily life of an older woman played by a female impersonator. Addressed to Louise Hautain.

Dates: 1904

Monsieur D'Hernonville, le Merveilleux Protee Feminin, 1910

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 5
Identifier: 225
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

Monsieur (et non Mademoiselle!) Thon Lind, 1927

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 10
Identifier: 89

Monsieur R. Bertin dans son Imitation de l'Excentrique "Polaire", 1904

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 2
Identifier: 13
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