?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
A FAMOUS CROSS-DRESSER (MUSIC.)--BENTLEY, GLADYS. Real Photo Postcard [together with] two pages relative to a claim filed against a club owner by Ms. Bentley, one of the latter signed by Ms. Bentley. Postcard and two 4to pages. Los Angeles, 1949
Gladys Bentley was an openly gay performer in an era when such things were not entirely acceptable. She dressed in men's suits, usually a white tux with tails, and was a frequent performer at Harry Hansberry's "Clam House" on 133rd Street in New York's Harlem. Billed as "America's Greatest Sepia Player," and "The Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs," Bentley claimed she had married a white woman in Atlantic City.
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