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.....

