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Gelatin silver prints.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 323 Collections and/or Records:

Idylle a trianon, 1902

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 13
Identifier: 118-120
Scope and Contents

Set of three cards with photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene. Male impersonator as officer invites a female aristocrat to dance in a studio-set salon. Numbered I, II and X.

Dates: 1902
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Idylle a Trianon, 1902

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 20
Identifier: 320-328
Scope and Contents

Same series depicted in cards 64-66.

Dates: 1902
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Il m'aime, Un peu, Beaucoup, 1905

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 13
Identifier: 121-123
Scope and Contents

Series of three postcards of a woman dressed in late 18th-century officer's wear reacting to declarations from a woman in a dress and flowered hat. The woman is reciting the traditional French equivalent of 'he loves me, he loves me not' while plucking petals from a flower. Cards numbered I, II and III. Each postcard after the first has a rhyming couplet as a caption on the recto.

Dates: 1905
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Illusion's perdues, 1920

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 9
Identifier: 79
Scope and Contents

Reproduction of a line-drawing caricature: Female impersonator undressing revealed to be a skinny man.

Dates: 1920
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Humor

Images taken at MoMA security office

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113867406], Folder: 3
Dates: 1972 - 1981
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 8120, Diego Cortez No Wave Collection / Exhibitions / Xerox and Blood

Jack Whymont, 1920

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 14
Identifier: 281
Dates: 1920
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / United Kingdom / Music Hall, Theater, and Film

James Chance, 1977

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113867414], Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Unique Polaroid photograph

Dates: 1977
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 8120, Diego Cortez No Wave Collection / Photographs

James Nares, Diego Cortez, East Village, 1976

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113867406], Folder: 15
Dates: 1976
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 8120, Diego Cortez No Wave Collection / Photographs

Je suis épris de toi, 1907

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 5
Identifier: 47
Dates: 1907
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Gallant scenes

Jeanne Bloch, 1910

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 3
Identifier: 16
Scope and Contents

A comic actress who played both female and male roles in music-hall revues; dressed as a portly, gray-haired, bearded gentleman looking like then President of the French Republic, Armand Fallières. Card No. 308.

Dates: 1910
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 7778, Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing / France / Music Hall, Theater and Film

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