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  1. 2nd Big Edition of Your Show of Shows

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 14, 1954
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Celebrities, Drag queens, Musicians
    Subject: Lee Leonard
  2. 50s Style Women's Music

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950
    Topics: Clubs, Crossdressers, Entertainers, Musicians
    Subject: Beverly Shaw, Chi Chi Club, Club Laurel, Flamingo Club, Mona's Club
  3. A blonde Jackie Starr with two people sitting at a table

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1946
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag performers, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Strippers
    Subject: Jackie Starr
    Description: Photograph of female impersonator Jackie Starr (at right) with two companions, the three sitting at a table with drinks.
  4. A Close Up of a Seated Performer

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan
    Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: A performer wearing a two-piece dress and matching hat poses sitting for a photograph. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen.
  5. A Few Days Left!: Charlotte McLeod

     
    Collection: Charlotte McLeod Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Date: Aug. 14, 1954
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, MtFs
    Subject: Charlotte McLeod
  6. A large group of people drinking

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950
    Topics: LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ weddings
    Subject: Jackie Starr
    Description: Photograph of a large group of people drinking and celebrating together, with various individuals in drag, likely taken following the wedding of Jackie Starr and Bill Scott.
  7. A Little of My Life

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Messetti, Vivian
    Date: Mar. 1, 1959
    Topics: Circus, Femininities, Intersex, Masculinities, Neugebauer family
    Subject: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vivian Messetti
  8. A Performer Sits in a Chair for a Photograph

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan
    Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: A performer in the show, "Look At Us Now", sits in a chair posing in a two-piece dress. This photograph may be of Private First Class Samuel Cohen.
  9. A Photograph of Stormé DeLarverie Surrounded by Three Female Impersonators

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: New York Public Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1958
    Topics: Black lesbians, Drag kings, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, QTPOC, Transfeminine people, Transmasculine people
    Subject: Jewel Box Revue, Roberts Show Club, Stormé DeLarverie
    Description: A photograph of Stormé DeLarverie (center), surrounded by three female impersonators at Roberts Show Club in Chicago, Illinois.
  10. A sailor holds hands with a man in elaborate drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1999?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: A naval officer holds hand with a man in an exotic dancer's costume. Location unidentified.
  11. A Seated Performer Poses for a Photograph

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan
    Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: A performer poses seated in a chair wearing a two piece dress and matching hat. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen.
  12. A Seated Performer Poses for a Photograph

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan
    Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: A seated performer poses in a two-piece dress. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen.
  13. About Those Ads

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 1, 1954
    Topics: Advertisements, Clothing, Discrimination, Letters to the editor, Transphobia
    Description: This letter is in reference to an advertisement run on page 31 in ONE Magazine Vol. 2, Issue 8 from October 1954. The ad can be found here under the related links section.
  14. After the Brawl

     
    Collection: Charlotte McLeod Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Omaha World-Herald
    Date: Apr. 17, 1954
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Photographers
    Subject: Charlotte McLeod
  15. Alan Hart author photo

     
    Collection: Alan Hart Collection
    Institution: Lewis & Clark College
    Creator:
    Date: 1942
    Topics: Physicians, Trans men, Transgender authors
    Description: Alan Hart's 1942 author photograph from the dust jacket of his novel <i>Dr. Finlay Sees It Through</i>. Hart is pictured at the age of about 52. Dr. Alan Hart (1890-1962) was an American physician,...