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Queens in drag.
- Title
- Queens in drag.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : S-K Books, 1964.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll Pulp Q54 1964 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- S-K Books, publisher.
- Description
- 7, [57] pages : chiefly ill.; 21 cm
- Summary
- Photo essay of a drag ball.
- Alternative Title
- Female impersonators-- on parade
- Subject
- Du Barry, Jeanne Bécu, comtesse, 1743-1793 > Anecdotes
- Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 > Art patronage
- Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774 > Art patronage
- Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764 > Anecdotes
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Art patronage
- Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
- Cross-dressers > New York (State) > New York > Portraits
- Female impersonators > New York (State) > New York > Portraits
- Transgender people > New York (State) > New York > Portraits
- Drag balls > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
- LGBTQ resource
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Portraits.
- Note
- Imprint from p. [4] of cover.
- "Female impersonators ... on parade"--Cover.
- Staple-bound wrappers with, on front wrapper, full -color depiction of man in women’s black underwear, corset, and stockings, made up in lipstick and eye shadow, with earring on left ear, standing with back to viewer, head in left profile, gazing at pink stiletto shoe held in his left hand, and other shoe, wig, and perfume bottle on mirrored vanity table in background.
- Back wrapper with blue, monochrome photograph of four drag queens in ball gowns.
- Title on front wrapper “Queens in Drag: Female Impersonators ………….. on parade.”
- No author given.
- Pamphlet contains essay introducing 56 full-page, black-and-white photographs of annual “Art Student’s Ball” sponsored by “Art Student’s League of New York” since “the mid 1920s.” Essay places fund-raising ball in context of “turn about” balls sponsored by the French monarchs Louis XIV and Louis XV, which Napoleon cancelled and then restored.
- “A golden opportunity for female impersonators, transvestites, rugged he-men who delight in wearing satin and lace, and others of the artistic set who wait all yearlong for this one chance ‘to let loose.’”—From introductory essay.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Call Number
- Berg Coll Pulp Q54 1964
- OCLC
- 792985385
- Title
- Queens in drag.
- Imprint
- New York, N.Y. : S-K Books, 1964.
- Edition
- Limited ed.
- Local Note
- Berg Collection copy with price stamp “$4.00” in upper right corner of front wrapper.
- Access
- Restricted access; request permission in holding division.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- S-K Books, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll Pulp Q54 1964