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  1. Columbia University Student Chorus Line of Men in Women's Costumes

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1934
    Topics: Crossdressing, Dance, Drag, Performing arts
    Subject: Lyla Roberti, Mae West
    Description: VS row of stockinged chorus line legs dancing / Pan up legs to reveal that the dancers are all men in tutus and stockings / CU man in blond wig, earrings, feather boa, and hat (Mae West) sings / MS...
  2. Countess Estelle as a brunette

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1930 to circa 1960
    Topics: Drag, Drag performers, Female impersonators
    Subject: Countess Estelle, Garden of Allah
    Description: Photograph of Countess Estelle standing in front of a curtain wearing a sleeved dress with a long pleated skirt, dangly earrings, black heels, and a dark fur piece draped around both wrists.
  3. Female impersonator Shuug Au Sing

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1930 to 1960
    Topics: Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Drag, Drag performers, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people of color, QTPOC
    Subject: Shuug Au Sing
    Description: Photograph of Shuug Au Sing in a floor length dress and large, elaborate headdress posing in front of curtains.
  4. Francis Russell, promotional photograph

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1930 to 1960
    Topics: Drag, Drag performers, Drag queens, Female impersonators
    Subject: Francis Russell
    Description: Promotional photograph of Francis Russell smiling in a sleeveless, black sequined mermaid dress, a layered necklace, and above the elbow, black fingerless gloves.
  5. Hialeah Club: Queens are Wild

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Fat Jak
    Date: 1920? to 1940?
    Topics: Drag, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Bobbi James, Buzzi, Fat Jak, Gayle Channing, Hialeah Club, Little Lil, Samantha Jones, Toni Desmond
  6. Hialeah Club: Queens are Wild (2)

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Fat Jak
    Date: 1920? to 1940?
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Bobbi James, Fat Jak, Gayle Channing, Hialeah Club, Jan Ett, Little Lil, Samantha Jones, Toni Desmond
  7. Hialeah Club: Would You Believe...I'm a Boy!

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1920? to 1940?
    Topics: Dancers, Drag, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Gayle Channing, Hialeah Club, Toni Desmond
  8. How Far Can a Girl Go, When She Really is a Man?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 18, 1934
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Organisations
    Subject: Female Impersonators of America, Jean Barrios
  9. In the Name of Art

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Johns, Vere E.
    Date: Apr. 28, 1934
    Topics: Drag, Musical theatre
    Subject: Gladys Bentley, Lafayette Theatre, Ralph Cooper, Tiny Bradshaw
  10. Jean Evol in drag in front of painted background

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1930 to 1960
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag queens
    Subject: Garden of Allah, Jean Evol
    Description: A photograph of Jean Evol posing in front of a painted wallpaper wearing a plaid maxi dress and a floral hat. There is writing on the photograph: "For Paris, If you were pretty like me you w...
  11. On The Air

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 27, 1934
    Topics: Drag, Music
    Subject: Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon
  12. Photo collage of Francis Blair in various costumes and at various ages

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1930 to 1970
    Topics: Drag, Drag kings, Drag performers, Drag queens, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Francis Blair
    Description: Photo collage of Francis Blair in various costumes and at various ages. Most of the cutout photos of Blair in the collage are examples of fem drag looks, with the exception of one masculine drag lo...
  13. Portrait of Francis Russell in a sequined dress

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1930 to 1960
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag performers, Drag queens, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people
    Subject: Francis Russell
    Description: Photograph of Francis Russell in a strapless sequined dress, tassel earrings, and a necklace. She is seated on a couch.
  14. Promotional photo of Don Holly in a black dress

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator: Conner-Gedde
    Date: circa 1930 to 1960
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Female impersonators
    Subject: Don Holly
    Description: Photograph of Don Holly posing in a long halter black dress and open-finger white sleeves, with a flower-like hairpiece. Near the bottom right corner, there is a handwritten message that refers to ...
  15. Promotional photograph of Francis Russell

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator: Romaine
    Date: circa 1930 to 1960
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag performers, Drag queens, Female impersonators
    Subject: Francis Russell
    Description: Promotional photograph of Francis Russell in a black strapless dress with a slit and long gloves. She is wearing a bracelet and is holding a garment. There is a faint handwritten note on the photog...