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Male impersonators

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:

Sarah Bernhardt dans L'Aiglon, 1900

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 3
Identifier: 217

Shepard and shepardess, 1906

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 14
Identifier: 129-134
Scope and Contents

Complete series of six postcards showing a young woman dressed as an 18th-century shepherd having a lover's spat with a young woman dressed as a shepherdess. Each postcard has one line of a six-line verse offering the dialogue of the lovers.

Dates: 1906

Theatre des Varietes. Barbe Bleue, 1900

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], 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

Theatre Marigny - Deslys, 1905

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 4
Identifier: 221
Scope and Contents

Gaby Deslys wearing the costume of a 17th-century male aristocrat.

Dates: 1905

Three muskateers and gardener, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], 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

Vesta Tilley, 1903

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 12
Identifier: 266
Scope and Contents

Tilley wearing top hat and carrying walking stick.

Dates: 1903