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
Scope and Contents
Stamped and mailed in France.
Dates:
1927
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