Inscription: "Addressed to Clara (?) Boissier. Brief message with illegible signature on recto." Two female performers flirting in a coupled dance pose, one dressed as woman in folkloric springtime mountaingirl garb, the other dressed as a young man in a tasseled cap, doublet, short pants and hose. The word “Cigale” appears at upper right on the recto, indicating that Mlle. Declos and Mlle. Gaity appeared at La Cigale, a music hall on the Place Pigalle in Paris that opened in 1887. Postage stamp and postmark on verso.
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Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing, #7778. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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