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Item #List3648 Collection of Five Pieces of Sheet Music Composed for Drag Performer Julian...

[Drag Performance – Broadway – Sheet Music – Female Impersonation] [Julian Eltinge] Johnson, Howard; Meyer, George W.; et al.

Collection of Five Pieces of Sheet Music Composed for Drag Performer Julian Eltinge, 1910–1917.

New York City: Leo. Feist Inc. and others, 1910–1917. Five pieces of sheet music (see full inventory below). Julian Eltinge (1881–1941) was the most commercially successful and popular female impersonator of his time. Beginning with drag performances in his adolescence, he developed a convincing portrayal of female characters—shocking audiences at.....

Price: $300.00

[LGBT History – Drag Performance – Vaudeville] Eltinge, Julian; Brown, Herold

Photograph of “Female Impersonator” Julian Eltinge, Taken c. 1920.

Unknown location: 1920s. Approximately 10 x 13 inches. Some tears and chips at edges, very good contrast, editorial overpainting on recto, overall very good. Marks on verso reading “Julian Eltinge Hippodrome March 12”. Julian Eltinge (1881/1883–1941) was an American actor and “female impersonator”—in today’s terms, a drag performer—from Newtonville, Massachusetts.....

Price: $750.00