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  1. Jack Brown, Dressed in Drag, Holds a Dance Pose with Partner Charles Gregory

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1902 to 1903
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Cakewalk (Dance), Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people of color
    Subject: Charles Gregory, Jack Brown
    Description: In the first image, Jack Brown and Charles Gregory stand facing away from each other, each with one hand reaching toward the camera, smiling. In the second, details within the photo have been color...
  2. Jack Brown Stands in Drag Beside Dance Partner Charles Gregory with Arms Open Wide

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1902 to 1902
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Cakewalk (Dance), Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people of color
    Subject: Charles Gregory, Jack Brown
    Description: Jack Brown and Charles Gregory pose side by side with their arms stretched out. Brown holds his skirt out wide while Gregory gazes up at him. Brown and Gregory performed the Cake-Walk, a very popul...
  3. Jack Brown, in Drag, Smiles Down at Bowing Dance Partner Charles Gregory

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1902 to 1903
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Cakewalk (Dance), Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people of color
    Subject: Charles Gregory, Jack Brown
    Description: Jack Brown holds his skirt out to the side while Gregory bows dramatically in front of him. Brown and Gregory performed the Cake-Walk, a very popular dance, as part of “Les Joyeux Nègres" at the No...
  4. Jack Brown Poses in Drag Holding Skirt and Fan, with Dance Partner Charles Gregory

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1902 to 1903
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Cakewalk (Dance), Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people of color
    Subject: Charles Gregory, Jack Brown
    Description: Charles Gregory leans across Jack Brown in a wide stance, while Brown appears to step toward Gregory almost as if the two are in motion. Brown and Gregory performed the Cake-Walk, a very popular da...
  5. Jack Brown Poses in Drag alongside Dance Partner Charles Gregory with Arm Outstretched

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1902 to 1903
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Cakewalk (Dance), Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people of color
    Subject: Charles Gregory, Jack Brown
    Description: Jack Brown leans toward partner with face upturned and right arm extended holding a fan. Gregory leans back toward Brown with his cane and top hat held high. Brown and Gregory performed the Cake-Wa...
  6. Jack Brown Poses in Drag in Front of Dance Partner Charles Gregory, Holding a Fan

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1902 to 1903
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Cakewalk (Dance), Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people of color
    Subject: Charles Gregory, Jack Brown
    Description: A postcard featuring Jack Brown in drag with dance partner Charles Gregory. Brown stands in the center wearing a long dress and ruffled hat with a fan in his right hand. Gregory is leaning out from...
  7. Jack Brown Posing in Drag

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1902 to 1903
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people of color
    Subject: Jack Brown
    Description: Jack Brown poses in drag facing the camera with arms outstretched and one leg lifted. He wears a large, ruffled hat and a light colored tiered dress with dark ruffles and trim. The bottom of the po...
  8. La merine a nastasie

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: CCC&C
    Date: 1909
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Inscription: "Addressed to Monsieur Rochabrun and Maxime Belliard; one is signed E.G. and the other A.D. Series of two postcards representing scenes and characters from La Mérine à Nastasie (1902),...
  9. Miss Sybil Arnudale

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Bromochrom, Arnudale, Sybil
    Date: 1909
    Topics:  
    Subject: Sybil Arnudale
    Description: Male impersonator dressed as 18th-century male aristocrat.
  10. Miss Hetty King

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, King, Hetty
    Date: 1909
    Topics:  
    Subject: Hetty King
    Description: King wearing day suit and top hat.
  11. Costumes poitevins

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: N. Alix, Pap.- Tab.-Journaux
    Date: 1909
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Inscription: "Addressed to Mademoiselle Gratecap. Brief message (“Affecteux souvenir”) with illegible signature." Couple dressed in quaint traditional garb of the Poitou region on the west coast of...
  12. Bonne Annee

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1909
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Slim young woman dressed as a mailman seen through a painted frame illustrating letters and a mail-carrying case. Recto inscribed in black ink: “1er Janvier 1909 / Georgette”. Divided verso.
  13. Bonne Annee

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator:
    Date: 1909
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Description: Slim young 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. Divided verso.
  14. La Matchiche

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Kunzli, Freres, Stebbing, Tender, Fanny, Tender, Alice
    Date: 1908
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Subject: Alice de Tender, Fanny de Tender
    Description: Set of two postcards portraying the De Tender sisters, both music-hall performers. Alice de Tender appeared at the Folies-Bergère, the Eldorado and the Moulin Rouge; she also appeared in silent fi...
  15. La Matchiche

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Kunzli, Freres, Stebbing, Tender, Fanny, Tender, Alice
    Date: 1908
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Subject: Alice de Tender, Fanny de Tender
    Description: Set of two postcards portraying the De Tender sisters, both music-hall performers. Alice de Tender appeared at the Folies-Bergère, the Eldorado and the Moulin Rouge; she also appeared in silent fi...