Collotypes (prints)
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:
Type Marseillais, 1904
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 18
Identifier: 180-184
Scope and Contents
Series of five comic postcards depicting a male impersonator as a woman of Marseilles. Each card has a humorous caption giving a line of dialog. Three cards (numbered 370, 373 and 374), show a fishwife carrying a scale for weighing her goods.
Dates:
1904
Violinist, 1900
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 12
Identifier: 104
Scope and Contents
Inscription: "Addressed to Mlle Fanny Grollier. Brief note at lower margin of recto signed Melanie B."
Dates:
1900
Zwegaly ?, 1905
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 34
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:
1905
Zwegaly ?, 1905
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 60
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:
1905