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Contains 130 Results:

L'Aiglon - Mme Sarah Bernhardt - Scene de Wagram, 1902

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 95
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1902

Jeanne Bloch, dans Armand' retour de Londres, 1910

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 96
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1910

Odeon - Clara Faurens, 1905

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 97
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1905

Illusion's perdues, 1920

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: 79
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1920

La plus serieuse des Lorientaises, 1917

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: 80
Scope and Contents

Mustachioed man dressed as a peasant woman carrying a basket and an umbrella.

Dates: 1917

Bergere et Berger, 1904 - 1906

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: 153-154
Scope and Contents

Series of two comic postcards of a shepherdess and a shepherd.

Dates: 1904 - 1906

Bonne Annee, 1930

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: 155
Scope and Contents

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."

Dates: 1930

Bonne Annee, 1907

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: 156
Scope and Contents

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”

Dates: 1907

Bonne Annee, 1913

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: 157
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1913

Bonne Annee, 1909

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: 158
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1909