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  1. Les Soeurs Mante de l'Opera

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Boyer, Mante, Suzanne, Mante, Blanche
    Date: circa 1907
    Topics: Male impersonators
    Subject: Blanche Mante, Suzanne Mante
    Description: Suzanne and Blanche Mante, lead dancers for the Opéra de Paris, enact a variation of an 18th-century galant scene with one dressed as a woman swooning onto the chest of the other dressed as a man. ...