Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Bonne Annee
- Title:
- Bonne Annee
- Collection:
- Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing in Europe and the United States, 1900-1930
- Date:
- 1907 (postmarked)
- Country:
- France
- ID Number:
- RMM07778_B1_F16_156_01
- Collection Number:
- 7778
- Card Number:
- 7778_156
- File Name:
- RMM07778_b1_f16_156_01.jpg
- Work Type:
- Gelatin silver
- Materials/Techniques:
- Applied color
- Subject:
- Male impersonators
- Measurement:
- 14.2 x 9.3 (centimeters)
- Description:
- Inscription: "New year’s greetings to “Ma chère Henriette” at Castle Hall School in Northampton, England; signed “Ton amie qui t’embrasse, Jeanne Lambert” Slim young woman dressed as a mailman in front of a studio backdrop of a village gate. Divided verso. Also included: Variant edition with differing tinting; publisher given as E.N., card number as 8179; art nouveau graphic divider on verso; postmarked 1905. Personal message addressed to “Chère amie” (Félice Pinty) signed Marguerite."
- 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: Humor
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 16
- 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.
