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Melle (Deux-sevres) - Paysanne poitevine
Inscription: "Addressed to Mademoiselle Legras Nadel. Brief message on recto (“Cordial Bonjour — Amitiés — Bonne Santé”) with illegible signature scrawled over head of model." Comic postcard of older man cross-dressed in the traditional garb of a Poitevin peasant woman, putatively from the rural commune of Melle. (The town is now best known as the birthplace of Ségolène Royal, socialist candidate for president in 2007 and now a cabinet minister.) Yellowing to margins and verso (stain from the postcard having been stored in an album with pages with die-cut windows); minor ink offsetting from postmarks.
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- https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:24416222
- Citation
- Cite
- Identifier
- x059c7575
- Collection
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Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
- Institution
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Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
- Creator(s)
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Robuchon, Jules
- Date Created
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circa 1900
- Genre
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Ephemera
- Places
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Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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Vienne
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Poitiers
- Topic(s)
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Female impersonators
- Resource Type
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Still Image
- Analog Format
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14 x 9.2 (centimeters)
- Language
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French
- Rights
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No known copyright
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