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Ella Wesner, male impersonator

from George Eastman Museum

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  • hobvias sudoneighm said:
    Ella Wesner (1841 - 1917) male impersonator. Ella Wesner started in showbiz as a ballet girl. She was Annie Hindle's dresser for a while which enabled her to learn the tricks of male impersonation. She was very popular in the 1880s. Like Hindle she recycled British Music Hall material for American audiences. Her best remembered act was as a tipsy dude getting a shave. Some found her act rather coarse or dubious, but this contributed to its masculinity. She never married and seems to have preferred female lovers. Her only reported romance was with Josie Mansfield, the notorious mistress of crooked financier Jim Fisk. After Fisk was shot by another of Josie's lovers, Edward Stokes, Ella and Josie went to Paris and presided over a salon at the Café Américan. Ella asked to be buried in her male costume. Laurence Senelick. The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre. Gender in performance. London, New York: Routledge, xvi, 540pp. 2000: 331.
  • LeenerBeener91 said:
    that is SO interesting!
  • M Moormann said:
    Wow, great collections!!
  • Alexis Barattin said:
    amazing!
  • Amber Jacobson said:
    I share utter love for this picture and all its meaning. I personally think its great! :0)

Minnie Hauk

from George Eastman Museum

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  • Rayezor said:
    Would this be one of her "Carmen" costumes?
  • Brittney Ray said:
    Her feet are so tiny!
  • cuddly hands said:
    She seems built in all the right places, extremley tiny feet, and amazing features
  • Life Pilgrim said:
    love those shoes! beautiful lady.
  • Cat Mandu said:
    hahaha!

Metropolitan baseball nine 1882 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • In Memoriam: budderflyman said:
    Ha, the ORIGINAL NY Mets.
  • ReadyAimClick said:
    Wow, this is great!!
  • Fred Voetsch said:
    Very nice. There's a high resolution image at the LOC website.
  • royalviking04 said:
    Rich, creamy.
  • Brian said:
    They could probably beat today's Mets!