Digital Transgender Archive

Type Marseillais - 366

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Series of five comic postcards depicting a plain middle-aged man cross-dressed to represent ordinary women of Marseilles. Each card has a humorous caption giving a line of dialog in the local patois laced with Provençal expressions. Two of the cards (numbered 366 and 367) show a woman wearing a brooch, pearls and an apron.

Item Information:

Identifier
hh63sw18c
Collection
Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
Institution
Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
Date Created
1904
Genre
Ephemera
Places
France
Topic(s)
Female impersonators
Resource Type
Still Image
Analog Format
14 x 9 (centimeters)
Language
French
Rights
No known copyright
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