Dresden, Germany
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Luzernow - Chansonetten-Darsteller, 1905
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078882549]
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents
Inscribed.
Dates:
1905
Male impersonator in men's evening wear and earrings, 1929
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 5
Identifier: 231
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, cafeĢ-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:
1929
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