Digital Transgender Archive
La Matchiche
Set of two postcards portraying the De Tender sisters, both music-hall performers. Alice de Tender appeared at the Folies-Bergère, the Eldorado and the Moulin Rouge; she also appeared in silent films, including the feature La Veuve Joyeuse (1913) and a number of shorts. "La Matchiche"was a popular song debuted in a music-hall show in 1902; the painter Kees van Dongen borrowed the title for a 1904 oil representing dancers at the bal populaire Le Moulin de la Galette (collection of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Troyes). Divided verso; notice printed full width indicating "Tous les pays étrangers n'acceptent pas la correspondance au recto (Se renseigner à la poste)"Series number indicated on recto: 405.
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- Identifier
- s7526c72m
- Collection
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Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
- Institution
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Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
- Creator(s)
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Kunzli, Freres
Stebbing
Tender, Fanny
Tender, Alice
- Date Created
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1908
- Genre
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Ephemera
- Subject(s)
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Alice de Tender
Fanny de Tender
- Places
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France
- Topic(s)
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Male impersonators
- Resource Type
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Still Image
- Analog Format
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14 x 9.1 (centimeters)
- Language
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French
- Rights
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No known copyright
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