Scope and content

Includes four medals received by Edgar Williams from King Albert of Belgium, Queen Elizabeth, the Parliament of Belgium, and the city of Brussels, with two supporting papers for the medals; photograph of D.J. Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines; correspondence concerning Williams' work with a war relief commission in Belgium, 1915-1917; photograph album of the commission; and a copy of Williams' will.

Abstract Postcards portraying cross-dressing and female and male impersonators in France, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Belgium, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Italy, and Romania. Postcards include photographic and photomechanical prints, some hand-colored. All are printed between circa 1900 and 1930 and depict performers on amateur, café-concert, music-hall, and legitimate stages at the high-point of cross-dressing as a form of entertainment. Many depict gallant visual narratives of...