Digital Transgender Archive
Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame
opular music-hall performer Louis Vernaissier, who played a wide variety of musical instruments while cross-dressed as a grand dame. Divided recto overprinted with a period promotional text for “A L’Entrée Libre,” a postcard shop in the working-class 12th arrondissement of Paris offering a “choix considérable de cartes postales” at 10 centimeters each. Some wear and minor chipping to margins of recto.
Item Actions
- View At
- https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:24416064
- Share
- Citation
- Cite
- Identifier
- 9s161646v
- Collection
-
Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
- Institution
-
Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
- Creator(s)
-
R. Riviere
Vernassier, Louis
- Date Created
-
circa 1905
- Genre
-
Ephemera
- Subject(s)
-
Louis Vernassier
- Places
-
Pays de la Loire
>
Maine-et-Loire
>
Angers
- Topic(s)
-
Female impersonators
- Resource Type
-
Still Image
- Analog Format
-
14 x 9.1 (centimeters)
- Language
-
French
- Rights
-
No known copyright
This image is believed to be in the public domain in the United States by virtue of publication date, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections, http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2019 from materials held in the Rare and Manuscript Collections, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Professor Durba Ghosh and Brenda Marston, Curator of the Human Sexuality Collection. For more information about this image, please contact the Rare and Manuscript Collections at rareref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
For more information on copyright, please read our policies
