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  1. Drag Queen Performing in Front of a Band

     
    Collection: Bobby Smith Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of South Florida
    Creator: Smith, Bobby
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1970
    Topics: Costume, Dance, Female impersonators, Music--Performance, Performance art, Theater
    Subject: Saratoga Club
    Description: A female impersonator, clothed in a ruffled dress and headpiece, dances in front of a band.
  2. Drag Queen Standing in Front of a Microphone

     
    Collection: Bobby Smith Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of South Florida
    Creator: Smith, Bobby
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1970
    Topics: Evening gowns, Female impersonators, Music--Performance, Singing, Theater
    Description: Female impersonator standing in front of a microphone in a shiny dress.
  3. Drag Queen Wearing a Black Shawl

     
    Collection: Bobby Smith Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of South Florida
    Creator: Smith, Bobby
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1970
    Topics: Evening gowns, Female impersonators, Theater
    Description: Female impersonator wearing a formal dress and a black shawl poses in front of a silk curtain.
  4. Effie Dropbottom Clippings

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 6, 1967
    Topics: Advertisements, Arrests, Drag, Law, Night life
    Subject: Effie Dropbottom
  5. Erickson Educational Foundation Newsletter, Vol. 2 No. 1 (Spring, 1969)

     
    Collection: Erickson Educational Foundation Publications
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF)
    Date: Spring 1969
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Homeopathy, Homosexuality, Law, Legal name, Psychology, Transsexualism
  6. Erickson Educational Foundation Newsletter, Vol. 2 No. 2 (Fall, 1969)

     
    Collection: Erickson Educational Foundation Publications
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF)
    Date: Autumn 1969
    Topics: Books, Definitions, Dictionaries, Families, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Physicians, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Albany Trust, First International Symposium on Gender Identity, German Society for Sex Research, Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic, London Gender Identity Unit
    Description: Handwritten notes and markings on pages 1-3.
  7. 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.
  8. Evergreen Cafe Visitors Book

     
    Collection: Te Papa Collection
    Institution: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
    Creator: Witoko, Chrissy
    Date: 1960 to 1980
    Topics: Drag community, Guest books, LGBTQ+ communities, Maori (New Zealand people)
    Subject: Chrissy Witoko, Evergreen Lounge
    Description: This is an Evergreen Cafe Visitors book created by Chrissy Witoko between 1960-1980.
  9. Ex-Male Hopes to Bear Children

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press International
    Date: Jan. 23, 1969
    Topics: Children, Gender realignment surgery, Marriage, MtFs, Pregnancy, Transgender people
    Subject: Dawn Pepita Hall, Paul Simmons
  10. Experiments Help Understand Plight Transsexualists

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Springfield Union
    Date: Nov. 13, 1969
    Topics: Experiments, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Medicalisation, Mental disorders, Psychologists, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: British Gender Identity Unit, Max Friedman
  11. Female Impersonators #1

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Winter 1969
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag community, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ fashion, LGBTQ+ films, LGBTQ+ people in the military, Transvestites
    Subject: Bunny Lake, Chickee Ramos, Christine Jorgensen, Holli White, Miss Fire Island, Moorish Stevens, Robin Rogers
    Description: Female Impersonators magazine edition with photos of drag queens at various competitions; articles about these contests and the people in them, including tips for female impersonators to improve th...
  12. Female Impersonators No. 1

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Health Knowledge
    Date: Winter 1969
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Documentaries, Drag, Drag queens, Events, Femininities, Labour, Letters to the editor, Photographs, Strippers
    Subject: Billy Daye, Bobbie Paris, Dean Harlowe, Jackie Morell, Joie Tone, Karyl Houston, Leslie Marlowe, Mark Vickers, Morrish Stevens, Pudgy Roberts, The Queen, Toni Lee
  13. Female Impersonators No. 2

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Health Knowledge
    Date: 1969
    Topics: Black transgender people, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag balls, Drag queens, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ magazines, MtFs, Transgender culture, Transgender identity, Transgender people
    Subject: Charley Smith, Chris Moore, Jackie Curtiss, Toni Lee
    Description: Contents: Mardi gras time -- Phil Black's annual Valentine ball -- Six foot Chris Moore -- Luis' ball -- Toni Lee -- Where?here! -- Let's makeup -- Tony Winters does a strip -- St. Clair revue -- J...
  14. Film of a 1960s drag cocktail party, picnic, and pool party

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1968 to 1969
    Topics: Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ events
    Description: Three events. The first is an evening event described in an onscreen sign as "Cocktail Party Honoring Empress Reba: Hostesses Princess Royal Fanny & Bobby." Partygoers mingle, celebrate, and show o...
  15. Film of a 1960s drag performance

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1968 to 1969
    Topics: Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ events
    Subject: Empress Reba, Imperial Court of San Francisco
    Description: A drag performance at a bar, with the camera occasionally panning over the audience. The drag queens -- including Empress Reba -- lip-synch, dance, and show off men for the crowd.