Box 1
Contains 130 Results:
L'Aiglon - Mme Sarah Bernhardt - Scene de Wagram, 1902
Inscription: Addressed to Mlle Marguerite Beaujean. Black-and-white reproduction of a watercolor illustration signed Espinasse. Sarah Bernhardt appearing in one of her most celebrated trouser roles as the son of Napoleon in La Aiglon (1900) by playwright Edmond Rostand, who wrote the role for her.
Jeanne Bloch, dans Armand' retour de Londres, 1910
Comic actor and singer Jeanne Bloch dressed as a portly, bearded man wearing a top hat and carrying a cane. Inscription at upper left on the recto indicates that Bloch was appearing at La Scala, a music hall in Paris open from 1874 to 1936.
Odeon - Clara Faurens, 1905
Stage and silent-film actor Clara Faurens appearing at the Theatre de la'Odeon (Paris) in the role of Pierrot, the commedia della arte stock figure of the lovesick clown. Inscribed verso: Brief note to Jeanne Gorno signed E. Hacquet.
Illusion's perdues, 1920
Reproduction of a line-drawing caricature: Female impersonator undressing revealed to be a skinny man.
La plus serieuse des Lorientaises, 1917
Mustachioed man dressed as a peasant woman carrying a basket and an umbrella.
Bergere et Berger, 1904 - 1906
Series of two comic postcards of a shepherdess and a shepherd.
Bonne Annee, 1930
Studio photo of a garconne, the French new young women of the 1920s who appropriated a variety of masculine privileges. Includes personal message about health issues, life troubles, hopes to see friend in the coming year."
Bonne Annee, 1907
Woman dressed as a mailman in front of a studio backdrop of a village gate. Divided verso. Publisher given as E.N., card number as 8179. Personal message addressed to “Chère amie” (Félice Pinty) signed Marguerite." Inscription: "New year's greetings to “Ma chère Henriette” at Castle Hall School in Northampton, England; signed “Ton amie qui t’embrasse, Jeanne Lambert”
Bonne Annee, 1913
Woman dressed as a mailman in front of a studio backdrop of a village gate. Same model, costume and set as preceding card, but differing pose. Holding mail.
Bonne Annee, 1909
Woman dressed as a mailman in front of a studio backdrop of a village gate. Same model, costume and set as preceding card, but differing pose. Holding flowers.