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La bretagne pittoresque - la plus belle fille de Pont-Aven

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Inscription: "Addressed to Monsieur Dumont; signed Horace (?). Message refers teasingly to representation of gender on postcard: “Comment-latrouves tu ?” Older man with gray hair and handlebar moustache dressed in the traditional garb of a woman from Brittany, including a bigouden (starched lace headdress), and with a market basket on one arm and an umbrella under the other. Suggesting the popularity of such images, the postcard echoes the representation of a peasant woman in La Plus Sérieuse des Lorientaises, a card already held by Cornell. Postage stamp and postmark on upper left corner of recto.

Item Information:

Identifier
8w32r5926
Collection
Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
Institution
Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
Creator(s)
A. Waron
Date Created
1915
Genre
Ephemera
Places
Brittany > Côtes-d'Armor > Saint-Brieuc
Topic(s)
Female impersonators
Resource Type
Still Image
Analog Format
13.9 x 9 (centimeters)
Language
French
Rights
No known copyright
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