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Male impersonators

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:

Defrance, 1904

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 11
Identifier: 100
Scope and Contents

Inscription: "Addressed to Isabelle Garon; signature of sender illegible." Performer dressed as an 18th-century male aristocrat. Inscription at upper left on the photo indicates that Mlle. Defrance 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.

Dates: 1904
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film / Odeon - Clara Faurens

Dolores Costello of the Vitagraph Players, 1911

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 15
Identifier: 290
Scope and Contents

Costello dressed as a sailor.

Dates: 1911
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / United States / Music Hall, Theater and Film

Egg, 1903

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 15
Identifier: 140-145
Scope and Contents Complete series of six postcards showing an enormous egg in front of a painted backdrop of a bucolic landscape. Over the series, the egg opens into left and right halves to reveal a woman dressed as an 18th-century male aristocrat who pays court to a woman dressed as a female aristocrat. Postmarks show the cards were mailed successively during the course of two months, with a message on the final one in the photo-narrative stating, "Thanks, this is the last one." The dates and inscription...
Dates: 1903
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

En Vacances, 1900

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 25
Identifier: 352
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: 1900
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Humor

Estudiantina, 1907

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 5
Identifier: 42-44
Scope and Contents

Series of three postcards.

Dates: 1907
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Fanluchette et Godichon, 1904

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 8
Identifier: 69-78
Scope and Contents

Full set of 10 cards with photo narrative of an early 19th-century seduction scene. Postcards numbered 1-10, each with a one- to two-sentence narrative.

Dates: 1904
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Fevrier, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 25
Identifier: 354
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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Humor

Fils a papa, 1907

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 18
Identifier: 186
Scope and Contents

Novelty card montage of three photos of the same woman dressed in top hat, tails and knee britches gesturing to a rabbit sitting next to her on a bench. May represent a musical hall trained animal act. Message on verso addressed to "Mon cher Pierre" and signed "Jeanne."

Dates: 1907
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Humor

Hetty King, 1906

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 9
Identifier: 251
Scope and Contents

King dressed as sailor with pipe.

Dates: 1906
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / United Kingdom / Music Hall, Theater, and Film

Hetty King promotional handbill

 Collection — Manuscript box 86, Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113876597]
Identifier: 7893
Dates: 1924
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hetty King promotional handbill

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