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Woman dressed as a mailman seen through a painted frame illustrating letters and a mail-carrying case.

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Female impersonator wearing a wig, pearls and a flowered tutu posing as a ballerina with arms in fifth position. The card is a spoof of the celebrated dancer and demimondaine Cléo de Mérode (1875-1966). A doggerel verse printed in red on the recto refers to the dancer's charms as designed to "captiver un prince."

Scope and Contents Complete series of six postcards showing a amle impersonator approaching a young woman and convincing her to learn how to ride the young man's bicycle. The narrative takes place in front of a painted studio backdrop of a Paris city scene. Each card includes a snippet of dialog between the two characters; the woman identifies herself in one as an "ouvrière dans une grande maison de Modes de la Rue de la Paix." Divided verso; imprinted "a utiliser seulement dans le régime intérieur (FRANCE,...

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Female impersonator with gray hair and handlebar moustache dressed in the traditional garb of a woman from Brittany, including a bigouden (starched lace headdress), and with a market basket on one arm and an umbrella under the other. Addressed to Monsieur Dumont; signed Horace (?). Message refers teasingly to representation of gender on postcard.

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Addressed to Mademoiselle Gratecap. Depicts couple dressed in traditional garb of the Poitou region on the west coast of France.

Scope and Contents Three postcards (nos. 2, 3 and 4) from a series of unknown length recounting episodes adapted from the melodramatic novel Les Deux gosses (Jules Rouff et Cie., 1880) by the popular author and playwright Pierre Decourcelle (1856-1926). The "two kids" of the title are Fanfan, the son of a diplomat carted off and raised by a married pair of petty criminals, and Claudinet, the ragged natural son of the couple. Decourcelle subsequently adapted the novel as a drama; in an 1896 production at the...

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Comic postcard of female impersonator in the traditional garb of a Poitevin peasant woman. Addressed to Mademoiselle Legras Nadel.

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Same series depicted in cards 320-328.

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Set of two postcards with photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene. Same images in cards 147-148. Same series depicted in cards 146-150 and 310.

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Full set of 10 cards with photo narrative of an early 19th-century seduction scene. Postcards numbered 1-10, each with a one- to two-sentence narrative.