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Relief halftones (prints)

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Odeon - Clara Faurens, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 11
Identifier: 97
Scope and Contents

Stage and silent-film actor Clara Faurens appearing at the Theatre de la'Odeon (Paris) in the role of Pierrot, the commedia della arte stock figure of the lovesick clown. Inscribed verso: Brief note to Jeanne Gorno signed E. Hacquet.

Dates: 1905

Postcards, early 1900s

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088355692], Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Three postcards: a German postcard, a photographic postcard of two women on a porch, and a photographic postcard of two women within the arms of a third.

Dates: early 1900s

Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing

 Collection
Identifier: 7778
Abstract 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: 1900-1931, 1955

The French Fregoli Emile Grandsart "Original Transformist", 1900

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 4
Identifier: 224
Scope and Contents

Music-hall protean performer Emile Grandsart, whose act involved costume quick-changes into both female and male characters.

Dates: 1900