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Female impersonators

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:

Paul Mariah material on Ambi Sextrous and the Baptist view of homosexuality

 Collection — Manuscript box 86 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070572874]
Identifier: 7877
Abstract

Sermon by Wendell Garrison titled "The Christian Attitude Toward Homosexuals" with a cover letter to Mrs. Ada Pearl Jones, Paul Mariah's mother; estate planning documents related to Ambi Sextrous, including last will and testament.

Dates: 1977, 1979, 1993

Photographs of men in women's formal gowns

 Collection — Manuscript box 86 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070576503]
Identifier: 7881
Abstract

10 color photographs of men in women's formal gowns (all appear to be from the same event). Stage, lighting, and audience are visible in the photographs.

Dates: 1972-11

Poilu's Park, 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 16
Identifier: 293
Scope and Contents

Inscription includes reference to the type of performance shown on the postcard.

Dates: 1915

Poilu's-Park, La Grande Divette, 1915

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 1
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents

French World War I soldier posed outdoors wearing a female gypsy costume. Black rubber-stamp impression on verso: "Collection J.F.M.

Dates: 1915

Poilu's-Park, Les Poilus Bert-Gyll et Mezy duettistes a transformations, 1915

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070754597], Folder: 1
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents

Costumes de la Maison Granier. The two cards offered here represent Poilu's Park, an amusement park for French and allied soldiers that operated from 1915 to 1916 in Commercy.

Dates: 1915

Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross dressing

 Collection
Identifier: 7778
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...
Dates: 1900-1931, 1955

Russ Theater, Lager Cottbus, 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 18
Identifier: 305

Terry Gardener photographs

 Collection — Manuscript box 86 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924131868022]
Identifier: 7933
Content Description

Three vintage promotional photographs of British female impersonator Terry Gardener

Dates: 1960 - 1985

The English Theatre, 1915

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924113964971], Folder: 17
Identifier: 296
Scope and Contents

POW theatrical by prisonors of camp in Langensalza, Germany. Captions in Frnech, English and Russian.

Dates: 1915