Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Bergere et Berger
- Title:
- Bergere et Berger
- Collection:
- Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing in Europe and the United States, 1900-1930
- Publisher:
- MJS
- Date:
- 1904-1906
- Country:
- France
- ID Number:
- RMM07778_B1_F16_154_01
- Collection Number:
- 7778
- Card Number:
- 7778_154
- File Name:
- RMM07778_b1_f16_154_01.jpg
- Work Type:
- Letterpress halftone
- Subject:
- Male impersonators
Female impersonators
- Measurement:
- 14.2 x 9.1 (centimeters)
- Description:
- Series of 2 comic postcards of a shepherdess and a shepherd. Both emphasize supposedly outlandish folkloric highlander clothing. One shows a woman dressed as a shepherd; a doggerel verse printed in red on the recto refers to the character as “Lubin,” a man in search of his “chère Annette.” This postcard shows Lubin holding an umbrella over a seated shepherdess, played by a man wearing an absurdly obvious wig, outsized flowered hat and simple peasant frock; a toylike stuffed sheep is visible at right. This card has a handwritten message on the verso: “Deux fiancées.” Considerable wear, creasing and scattered spotting to both cards.
- Cite As:
- Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing, #7778. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing
- Series:
- France: Humor
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 16
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- 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.
