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Box 2

 Container

Contains 172 Results:

Marise Fairy, 1910

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: 223
Scope and Contents

Marise Fairy in the role of Buster Brown from the Revue de Marigny, a music-hall show presented at the Theatre de Marigny in Paris.

Dates: 1910

The French Fregoli Emile Grandsart "Original Transformist", 1900

 Item — Box: 2, 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

Minouche, 1955

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: 226
Scope and Contents

Studio shot of Minouche, one of the stars of Madame Arthur, a leading female-impersonation cabaret of Paris in the 1950s and 1960s. In this photograph, Minouche, who was white, impersonates a black performer in the style of Eartha Kitt.

Dates: 1955

Zambelli et Mante, 1906

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: 228
Scope and Contents

Male impersonator and female dancer dressed in 17th-century costume.

Dates: 1906

A travers les coulisses, 1925

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: 230
Scope and Contents

Female impersonator as a showgirl in her dress room.

Dates: 1925