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Male impersonators

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:

Betti Kuhn, weiblicher Gesangskomiker, preisgekront, 1910

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 1
Identifier: 212
Scope and Contents

Kuhn dressed in an informal suit, holding a cigarette.

Dates: 1910

Carbonell-Lopez, 1900

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 6
Identifier: 232
Scope and Contents

Two male impersonators dressed in folk-dance suits against studio backdrop of café.

Dates: 1900

Ce petit coin tranquille, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 19
Identifier: 315
Scope and Contents

Same characters and setting as portrayed in card 314.

Dates: 1905

Chasse-croise, 1900

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 12
Identifier: 107-111
Scope and Contents

Series of 5 postcards number I through V showing an 18th century picnic. The series is highly unusual as the only postcards of the genre documented to date that represent a cross-dressed woman and a man dressed as a man both portraying male roles. Inscription: "Addressed to Mesdemoiselles Bonnet; signed on recto of each card: Henriette."

Dates: 1900

Chavarny, 1904

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 11
Identifier: 98
Scope and Contents

Performer dressed as an 18th-century male aristocrat in a beribboned outfit and an enormous feathered cavalier hat. Inscription at upper left on the photo indicates that Mlle. Chavarny appeared at La Scala, a music hall in the 10th arrondissement of Paris open from 1874 to 1936 where many of the grand stars of the era appeared. Addressed to Isabelle Garon; signature of sender illegible.

Dates: 1904

Colin et Jeannette, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 19
Identifier: 316-317
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

Couple in fancy dress, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 19
Identifier: 187
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

Cricket on the Hearth, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 4
Identifier: 26
Scope and Contents

Based on the indication of the roles noted on the verso, the actors are appearing in a play based on the Charles Dickens novella The Cricket on the Hearth. On verso: Logo of a bridled horse head framed in a horse-­shoe. Pale blue rubber-stamp impression on verso giving name and city of publisher.

Dates: 1910

de Brives (Varietes), 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 4
Identifier: 220
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

Declos Gaity, 1903

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 11
Identifier: 99
Scope and Contents

Inscription: "Addressed to Clara (?) Boissier. inscription at upper right on the recto indicates that Mlle. Declos and Mlle. Gaity appeared at La Cigale, a music hall on the Place Pigalle in Paris that opened in 1887.

Dates: 1903