Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Les Fiances
- Title:
- Les Fiances
- Collection:
- Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing in Europe and the United States, 1900-1930
- Date:
- 1906
- Country:
- France
- ID Number:
- RMM07778_B1_F10_082_01
- Collection Number:
- 7778
- Card Number:
- 7778_82
- File Name:
- RMM07778_b1_f10_082_01.jpg
- Work Type:
- Collotype
- Subject:
- Male impersonators
- Measurement:
- 13.4 x 8.6 (centimeters)
- 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 aristocrat, possibly an officer or court official, as she sports a sash.
- Cite As:
- Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing, #7778. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing
- Series:
- France: Gallant scenes
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 10
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This image is believed to be in the public domain in the United States by virtue of publication date, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections, http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2019 from materials held in the Rare and Manuscript Collections, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Professor Durba Ghosh and Brenda Marston, Curator of the Human Sexuality Collection. For more information about this image, please contact the Rare and Manuscript Collections at rareref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
