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Louis Vernassier - l'homme protee musical dans son Travesti Dame

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Small chips (1 cm x 1 cm maximum) and tape mark to upper margin; stamp and postmark on recto. Louis Vernassier had a long and prolific career as a music-hall female impersonator whose act involved playing numerous musical instruments (this postcard lists 12 different ones, plus "tous les instruments excentriques"). This is one of the rarest of the several postcards representing Vernassier; I have seen only one other example (in a private collection in France).

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Identifier
kh04dq04p
Collection
Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
Institution
Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
Creator(s)
R. Riviere
Vernassier, Louis
Date Created
1910
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
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