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Box 1

 Container

Contains 130 Results:

Chavarny, 1904

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 98
Scope and Contents

Performer dressed as an 18th-century male aristocrat in a beribboned outfit and an enormous feathered cavalier hat. Inscription at upper left on the photo indicates that Mlle. Chavarny 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. Addressed to Isabelle Garon; signature of sender illegible.

Dates: 1904

Declos Gaity, 1903

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 99
Scope and Contents

Inscription: "Addressed to Clara (?) Boissier. inscription at upper right on the recto indicates that Mlle. Declos and Mlle. Gaity appeared at La Cigale, a music hall on the Place Pigalle in Paris that opened in 1887.

Dates: 1903

Defrance, 1904

 Item — Box: 1, 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

Theatre des Varietes. Barbe Bleue, 1900

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 101
Scope and Contents

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 Offenbach's opera-bouffe Barbe-Bleue (1866).

Dates: 1900

France, 1900-1930, 1955, bulk: 1900 - 1930

 Series — Box: 1
Dates: 1900-1930, 1955; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930

Music Hall, Theater and Film

 Sub-Series — Box: 1
Dates: 1900-1930, 1955; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930

Gallant scenes

 Sub-Series — Box: 1
Dates: 1900-1930, 1955; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930