Inscription: "Brief manuscript message providing a caption in the lower margin of the recto of each postcard (“Ah! Attention!!!!!!”; “Ça s’embrouille”; etc.). Each message is signed “Jane.” Complete series of five postcards showing a woman dressed as an 18th-century male aristocrat wearing an epée who pays court to a woman in a flowered dress and with flowers in her hair. In the final scene, the man helps the woman wind a ball of yarn, suggesting romantic entanglement (and possible future domesticity). All the scenes are set against a blank studio backdrop. Postage stamp and postmark (but no mailing address) on the verso of each card.
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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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