‘Le bal á bord’, late 19th, early 20th cent?

Ray Batchelor writes: “From the website of Marseillestango.fr a page devoted to “Le Tango, à l’origine, se dansait-il entre hommes ?” Once again, the reason for offering this image in this context is not that we can prove they are dancing tango, but that the image is used in the

Shipyard workers dancing at Bordeaux, France, 1936

Ray Batchelor writes: “From the website of Marseillestango.fr a page devoted to “Le Tango, à l’origine, se dansait-il entre hommes ?” Des danseurs de Tango au son d’un Bandonéon, quelque part en Argentine ? Non : des danseurs probablement de Valse et de Polka, à Bordeaux, au son d’un accordéon,

Marine

Irmantas Bacelis writes: ” ” What do you belive the copyright status of this image to be? Irmantas Bacelis believes: “I don’t know the copyright status of the image.” The image url: https://www.google.de/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZisHgKkjGKQzOFH9bTleKd6bruLc7OvEd2sJ2yw2jCEeWytMqUsNdAjuNxA8nwQ77VyOYyinr-jbY57mNJ8kz9SLWAEH7AxfvaYghOTjNU54TklCo2-byGkIj9ZuC-vF8Vuu5LFQfQg4ARLhViFxPzXXWXONA7fmqG7yXlZftYi50o37cxctZ-5xZc6xHCYeeeNZd53qIhl8l9eogWThnYc4o1ryYvSfsnGLFfNOkBnEqipwdf_1vR1uAm9ECk7gHR4OkhbAhsN02T-790XffNSVDOnJaC8hADT69dhk0THLJZ1uSBWWGZkARFekXDgfIEtP3A7KSBkoOsvPBvouJUPUwBb4wOAy5iRi_1zRReh_1h-XoDUv6MgOsSyeHkUQncoTCi3AbpSd4yhtQ6Fe137mxDpKALhaUALSKVZftbyaW7HBXJd2ptaTS8C_1mjFYg1Qlh63KE2Lbv5eY2cBNCX7rjq_1XK0M6p1_1xwgVgLbAt0ooAaIZbAJTLDxsaX1X5_1TdK8rmUm6Q9SOXzJnq1PyRYMyICpMsexmbmugpVxrKpESZiMvtN3O7j-rsoSo5xVCADfwEUA7Hy-Szt2ey5GRtasEtla0N23PFMhb0CjxCEYJ9kIpxTvkv6kk6n38pmvWMu0CCSDoN5jpCdgwD10KoDPWY4ZUwrcNOWZ1CqQiAjcqbP54WDlGoZbILD_1Ez8Uz0CD6r63Y2jOl4nTqo8HkYrmke96HLGsqkRSAbuqZe–CVzd4Wsb_1vkpvJYC6fo1i8xUvKYF9Kzbmjbz9RkNCa_1a4cwC9K5q4j-QetpdEFX3gJ7gkSqzhGR5Gulo4pEvuJzzA4CKX6Lm6bWvqVzceeIQJHi1zeBCoMAl5xPRJpJXbVvVQXZdMAgOCyZdvZy7-rktk6hhiZKMDE_1WtDJKopyYNajT63-I2oWsKHXv5MantIIX5u7oNcpNbnjSc65Ah5BSSH1TOP_1IrA7z-bJEhQrHVxEAb7IgxJjHDU3gMuer4pF1H0wloy1xtvgRAeIPN-pDK8DFe8P9r3CCJS-hEMUYaHunAFVd2TBJsrte9NLuD-ESyUMdtaNC0lxvquFW7huZVIpjGhJ1SR0h8BFB5Ob4OC2BYJB8kQCk0w_1t7zcFJ8sBGMdYrAO8RaDwQRYSf6fsuC-sK8Or0NwtIpqT9Io4ulYWPC-3dcyunLdvV0phSEQ4lp4S_1lvHszciMeKfBX7Inud8szmtTeaCKXEeSmFcDpMp6ITsJ7X9wth4KX8KQPIpYqHk5p2yTQNuVZtqQMOXWIc11d0DY2fl2yp7OEFdhVb6h1TJsDC3lYXq6tKZ-EQ1k6zpc23qHFWxtOThGxeYhv6Tszv6DXdHo0hfHwqDDvNx8Wz9VyQfSa4G9h64CCJsZvlFre_1mdWcjOmR65VbMptzLCzF9jIxBL3h1XR1cYn2oYiAS9h51IJmLDIBB3HUsKl0DxZECwqdvWUnfheziShZxCydUxBnrOnyqglwtugT2wkC6tOou5onCS7TCbWuplpYq4ow5yWFu9jpCZ0Twnw4H2Xab_1dWt2LxxNd1bzVGk8vFtPMQJrKDKXoUNOYHfjbosyX9T1BjX9HrVUpFgpFByY4&hl=lt-DE

Sheet Music: Maurice Chevalier dancing tango with another man, Paris 1913

Ray Batchelor writes: Cover of sheet music,  The Penultimate Tango or The Dingo Tango L’avant dernier tango – The Penultimate Tango A young (25?) Maurice Chevalier towers over and leads music hall and film star, Félicien Tramel, while Rollin – should that be Polin? Certainly the stage persona of Pierre-Paul

Del libro Las tanguistas Ilustraciones de Pico (pseudo) 1920s (?)

Ray Batchelor writes: “From Spanish website http://www.esto.es/tango/espanol/Ellas.htm  text by J. Alberto Mariñas. This, with other images from J. Alberto Marinas’ website is a further example of women shown dancing together – and perhaps the ‘lesbian erotica for the male-gaze’ dimension is less to the fore? Without a proper context, is

Del libro Las tanguistas Ilustraciones de Pico (pseudo) 1920s (?)

Ray Batchelor writes: “From Spanish website http://www.esto.es/tango/espanol/Ellas.htm  text by J. Alberto Mariñas. This, with other images from J. Alberto Marinas’ website is a further example of women shown dancing together – and perhaps the ‘lesbian erotica for the male-gaze’ dimension is less to the fore? Without a proper context, is

En el cabaret, by Fabius Lorenzi 1920s (?)

Ray Batchelor writes: “From Spanish website http://www.esto.es/tango/espanol/Ellas.htm  text by J. Alberto Mariñas. The artist Fabius Lorenzi (1880-1969) specialised in fashionable illustrations of a sexually adventurous, Parisian demi-monde, including – depending on how you look at them – representations of women enjoying autonomous sexual relations with men, to which this image

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