Inscription: "Addressed to Mesdemoiselles Bonnet; signed on recto of each card: Henriette." Series of 5 postcards number I through V showing an 18thcentury picnic with two women being courted by two men: One of the men is a woman cross-dressed as an officer; the other is a man dressed as a man. The scenes take place on a set with a rustic fence and a faux stream with a studio backdrop of a wooded dell. The series is highly unusual as the only postcards of the genre documented to date that represent a cross-dressed woman and a man dressed as a man both portraying male roles.
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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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