Digital Transgender Archive
1er Avril
Series of 2 April Fool’s Day (“poisson d’avril”) postcards. Two women dressed in 18th-century aristocratic garb, one as a man, one as woman: In this card (tinted), each is holding a colossal fish (montaged into the negative). Undivided verso. Stamp and postmark on verso. Brief personal message and date handwritten on side margins of recto. A doggerel verse printed on the recto of each refers to the pair in the photo as “ces marquis gracieux.”
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- pk02cb046
- Collection
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Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
- Institution
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Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
- Creator(s)
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A & Cie
- Date Created
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1905
- Genre
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Ephemera
- Places
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Île-de-France
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Paris
- Topic(s)
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Male impersonators
- Resource Type
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Still Image
- Analog Format
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14 x 9.2 (centimeters)
- Language
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French
- Rights
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No known copyright
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