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  1. Erickson Photo Album, ca. 1917-1971

     
    Collection: ONE Archives Online Materials
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1917 to circa 1919
    Topics: Families, Photograph albums, Transgender people
    Subject: Reed Erickson
    Description: Reed Erickson photograph album, ca. 1917-1919 and ca. 1926-1971. 22 pages.
  2. 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.
  3. Flash! Welcome Fat Stock Show at Wagon Wheel Nite Club

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1936 to 1939
    Topics: Bars, Drag queens, Night life
    Subject: Dave Gold, Del Le Roy, Dot Williams, Golden Devine, Jeane Lane, Johnny Kaye, Lee Norre, Mickey Dell, Murry Pickford, Pete Van, Wagon Wheel
  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. German actors, some in drag, gather on stage at a party. Photographic postcard, 1930-45.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1930? to 1945?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: The actors, playing a variety of characters, are drinking and in conversation on stage, with lanterns hanging from the layered stage ceiling. A German amateur theatrical (presumably military) group...
  6. Ginny Knuth Family Album

     
    Collection: ETVC
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1930 to 1998
    Topics: Allies, Cisgender women, Gender non-conforming people, Partners of crossdressers, Transgender people, Transvestites
    Subject: Educational TV Channel (ETVC), Ginny Knuth
    Description: A family photo album from the papers of Ginny Knuth, a cisgender member of Educational Transvestite Channel (later called TransGender San Francisco). Knuth's partner identified as a crossdresser an...
  7. Henri Defreyn in drag as a geisha. Process print after G. Dupont, 19--.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1900 to 1999?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Henri Defreyn performing a parody of Sada Yacco, geisha and actress. The extremely popular Japanese entertainer Sada Yacco had toured the world 1900-1903 and caused a sensation wherever she went. S...
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. I’m Sending A Letter to Santa Claus

     
    Collection: Sheet Music
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1939
    Topics: Gender expression, LGBTQ+ musicians, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Charles A. Wenman, Gracie Fields, Lanny Rogers, Maurice Guttridge, Nellie Kolle, Sinbad the Sailor, Spencer Willaims
    Description: A cover of the sheet music for "I'm Sending a Letter to Santa Claus," featuring Nellie Kolle.
  12. Jackie Starr in striptease costume

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator: Grady
    Date: 1939
    Topics: Drag community, Drag performers, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ theater, Strippers, Striptease
    Subject: Garden of Allah, Jackie Starr
    Description: Photograph of Jackie Starr in striptease costume used as the cover photograph for "An Evening in the Garden of Allah."
  13. 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...
  14. Jimmy Slater Presents the Super Follies

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1930s
    Topics: Female impersonators, Photography, Theatre shows
    Subject: Jimmy Slater
  15. Jimmy Slater: The Incendiary Blonde

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1930s
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography
    Subject: Jimmy Slater