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  1. [Shepard and shepardess]

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1906
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Inscription: "All the cards are addressed to Angèle Lobet in Reims; most are signed by Blanche or “Bl. Lobet,” but one with a brief message in a shaky hand with a spelling correction is signed Pier...
  2. [Soldier]

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1915
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Postcard of a young woman dressed in a World War I soldier’s uniform but with women’s high-heeled bottine-type shoes. The subject has a pipe clenched in her mouth and is sitting on a bench in a cou...
  3. The French Fregoli Emile Grandsart "Original Transformist"

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Marteau, Ernest, Grandsart, Emile
    Date: 1900
    Topics:  
    Subject: Emile Grandsart
    Description: Music-hall protean performer Emile Grandsart, whose act involved costume quick-changes into both female and male characters.
  4. Theatre des Varietes. Barbe Bleue

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: S.I.P., Boyer, Paul, Noray, Mlle
    Date: 1900
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Subject: Mlle Noray
    Description: Inscription: "Addressed to Rose Bounias; brief message on recto signed P. Paul" Actress dressed as a 17th-century cavalier, likely in the role of one of the brothers in a production of Jacques Offe...
  5. Theatre Marigny - Deslys

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Walery, Deslys, Gaby
    Date: 1905
    Topics:  
    Subject: Gaby Deslys
    Description: Gaby Deslys wearing the costume of a 17th-century male aristocrat.
  6. [Three muskateers and gardener]

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1905
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Postcard of four women: three dressed as 17th-century musketeers and one dressed as a male gardener wearing a work apron and heavy clogs and holding a rake. The two women at the center are the same...
  7. Type Marseillais - 366

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1904
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Series of five comic postcards depicting a plain middle-aged man cross-dressed to represent ordinary women of Marseilles. Each card has a humorous caption giving a line of dialog in the local patoi...
  8. Type Marseillais - 367

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1904
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Series of five comic postcards depicting a plain middle-aged man cross-dressed to represent ordinary women of Marseilles. Each card has a humorous caption giving a line of dialog in the local patoi...
  9. Type Marseillais - 370

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: F. Lacour
    Date: 1904
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Series of five comic postcards depicting a plain middle-aged man cross-dressed to represent ordinary women of Marseilles. Each card has a humorous caption giving a line of dialog in the local patoi...
  10. Type Marseillais - 373

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1904
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Series of five comic postcards depicting a plain middle-aged man cross-dressed to represent ordinary women of Marseilles. Each card has a humorous caption giving a line of dialog in the local patoi...
  11. Type Marseillais - 374

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1904
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Series of five comic postcards depicting a plain middle-aged man cross-dressed to represent ordinary women of Marseilles. Each card has a humorous caption giving a line of dialog in the local patoi...
  12. [Violinist]

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1900
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Inscription: "Addressed to Mlle Fanny Grollier. Brief note at lower margin of recto signed Melanie B." Young woman dressed in 18th-century men’s garb playing a violin against a studio backdrop of a...
  13. Young male impersonator in top hat and suit

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1910
    Topics:  
  14. Yvette Dolly

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Francis Photo, Dolly, Yvette
    Date: 1924
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Subject: Yvette Dolly
    Description: Inscription: Moulin Rouge Paris 27/11/24 / A Myriam mon / bon souvenir / Dolly. Divided verso; black rubber-stamp impression on verso: "Collection J.F.M.”
  15. Zambelli et Mante

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Boyer, Paul
    Date: 1906
    Topics:  
    Description: Male impersonator and female dancer dressed in 17th-century costume.