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  1. Joe Dusin, aka Billy DeVoe, headshot

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator: Van Dam Studio
    Date: circa 1955
    Topics: Drag queens, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ people
    Subject: Billy DeVoe, Garden of Allah, Joe Dusin
    Description: Photograph of Joe Dusin, aka Billy DeVoe, in a cable knit sweater with a 3/4 angle view of Dusin's face. Dusin was a female impersonator known as the "blonde Lana Turner" who frequently emceed and ...

  2. Tony Midnite in black veil

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator: Seymour, Maurice
    Date: circa 1955
    Topics: Drag, Drag performers, Drag queens, Female impersonators
    Subject: Tony Midnite
    Description: Promotional photograph of Tony Midnite in a bejeweled black one-shoulder ball gown, a thick black necklace, long black gloves, and a dotted black veil. Handwritten in the bottom left corner is "Mau...