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  1. Les Cerises

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Kunzli Freres Editeurs
    Date: circa 1900
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Set of 10 cards with photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene. "Male"climbs ladder to pick cherries, offers to female, tries to kiss her. Undivided verso.
  2. Les Cerises

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Kunzli Freres Editeurs
    Date: circa 1900
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Set of 10 cards with photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene. "Male"climbs ladder to pick cherries, offers to female, tries to kiss her. Undivided verso.
  3. Les Cerises

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Kunzli Freres Editeurs
    Date: circa 1900
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Set of 10 cards with photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene. "Male"climbs ladder to pick cherries, offers to female, tries to kiss her. Undivided verso.
  4. Les Cerises

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Kunzli Freres Editeurs
    Date: circa 1900
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Set of 10 cards with photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene. "Male"climbs ladder to pick cherries, offers to female, tries to kiss her. Undivided verso.
  5. Les Cerises

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Kunzli Freres Editeurs
    Date: circa 1900
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Set of 10 cards with photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene. "Male"climbs ladder to pick cherries, offers to female, tries to kiss her. Undivided verso.
  6. [Les deux gosses]

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1910
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Inscription: "Addressed to Paul Rabeau; messages with three different largely illegible signatures." Three postcards (nos. 2, 3 and 4) from a series of unknown length recounting episodes adapted fr...
  7. [Les deux gosses]

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1910
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Inscription: "Addressed to Paul Rabeau; messages with three different largely illegible signatures." Three postcards (nos. 2, 3 and 4) from a series of unknown length recounting episodes adapted fr...
  8. [Les deux gosses]

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1910
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Inscription: "Addressed to Paul Rabeau; messages with three different largely illegible signatures." Three postcards (nos. 2, 3 and 4) from a series of unknown length recounting episodes adapted fr...
  9. Les Fiances

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1906
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Series of 2 postcards apparently showing the stars of a stage production, possibly an operetta, set in the 18th century. This card shows a young woman dressed in the fancy garb of a male aristocra...
  10. Les Soeurs Mante de l'Opera

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Boyer, Mante, Suzanne, Mante, Blanche
    Date: circa 1907
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Subject: Blanche Mante, Suzanne Mante
    Description: Suzanne and Blanche Mante, lead dancers for the Opéra de Paris, enact a variation of an 18th-century galant scene with one dressed as a woman swooning onto the chest of the other dressed as a man. ...
  11. L'invitation

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Kunzli, Freres, Stebbing
    Date: 1900
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Variant edition of “L’Invitation” postmarked 1900; brighter printing makes photo details more visible; differing hand-tinting; undivided verso; brief manuscript message on recto.
  12. L'invitation

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Kunzli, Freres, Stebbing
    Date: 1903
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Inscription: "Series of love notes addressed to a woman named Albertine Frémoul from a man identifying himself as “votre fiancé” (signature partially illegible: “G. Rammeno...” Set of 5 cards with ...
  13. Liseron Parisiana

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Parisiana, Liseron
    Date: circa 1915
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Subject: Liseron
    Description: Minor wear to margins. A particularly young and boyish performer; this postcard is scarce — I have seen no other examples.
  14. Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: R. Riviere, Vernassier, Louis
    Date: circa 1905
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Subject: Louis Vernassier
    Description: opular music-hall performer Louis Vernaissier, who played a wide variety of musical instruments while cross-dressed as a grand dame. Divided recto overprinted with a period promotional text for “A ...
  15. Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: R. Riviere, Vernassier, Louis
    Date: 1910
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Subject: Louis Vernassier
    Description: Small chips (1 cm x 1 cm maximum) and tape mark to upper margin; stamp and postmark on recto. Louis Vernassier had a long and prolific career as a music-hall female impersonator whose act involved ...