2607715 Portrait of Ella Wesner, c.1880 (Cabinet Card) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ella Wesner (1851 ??1917) was the most celebrated male impersonator of the Gilded Age Vaudeville circuit. Wesner began her career at the age of nine as part of a family of vaudeville and musical-stage dancers. By her mid-twenties, she was playing both male and female roles, at some point meeting and working as a "dresser" for the most notorious, and perhaps the earliest Vaudeville male impersonator of the time, Annie Hindle;); Prismatic Pictures ; American, out of copyright.