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Contains 130 Results:

La merine a nastasie, 1906

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Identifier: 174
Scope and Contents

Series of two postcards (with card 173) representing scenes and characters from La Mérine à Nastasie (1902), a play by Yann Saint-Acer, written in the Saintongeais dialect of the west coast of France.

Dates: 1906

Mme Pipelet lit son feuilleton, 1904

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Identifier: 175-177
Scope and Contents

Series of three postcards representing humorous scenes from the daily life of an older woman played by a female impersonator. Addressed to Louise Hautain.

Dates: 1904

Racettes de friandises - Gateau Suisse, 1900

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: 178
Scope and Contents

Addressed to Auguste Morel. Woman dressed as a chef wearing a toque, men's coat and men's 18th-century kneepants and hose while holding up a fluted cake pan. She leans against a decor suggesting a country kitchen. Printed in red at the bottom of the recto is a recipe for Swiss cake.

Dates: 1900

Le berceuse du gosselin, 1905

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: 179
Scope and Contents

Female impersonator holding a porcelain doll and dressed as a nanny in a lace cap and apron.

Dates: 1905

Type Marseillais, 1904

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: 180-184
Scope and Contents

Series of five comic postcards depicting a male impersonator as a woman of Marseilles. Each card has a humorous caption giving a line of dialog. Three cards (numbered 370, 373 and 374), show a fishwife carrying a scale for weighing her goods.

Dates: 1904

Fils a papa, 1907

 Item — Box: 1, 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

Three muskateers and gardener, 1905

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: 188
Scope and Contents

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 one who appear in the "Couple in Fancy Dress" postcard, and they are standing in the same garden.

Dates: 1905

Male impersonators in costume, 1905

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: 189
Scope and Contents

Postcard showing six women posing in front of the entry to a brick building. Three are dressed in the simple outfits of working women, including one wearing a long white apron; the other three are male impersonators dressed as a gendarme in uniform; a judge in robe, collar and chapeau; and one in a frock coat and fedora.

Dates: 1905