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  1. An Actress at her Toilet, or, Miss Brazen Just Breecht

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 24, 1779
    Topics: Actors, Animals, Clothing, Crossdressing, Visual arts
    Description: The interior of a well-furnished dressing-room. A young woman stands in the centre, arms akimbo, putting on a pair of breeches and looking towards the mirror which stands on a dressing-table (right...
  2. An Adventure Towards Normalization

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Whitman, Rebecca Lynn
    Date: Dec. 14, 1990
    Topics: Coming out, Crossdressing, Stealth (Transgender), Trans women, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Erika Erinwulf, Kathryn McGuire, Leslie Perez, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Renee Richards, Texas A&M University, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self
    Description: Clipping from pages 45 and 47 of volume 16, number 20 issue of This Week in Texas, published by Texas Weekly Times Newspaper Co.
  3. An All-Male Review at the Paddock

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1969
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: The Paddock International, Vives Les Boys
  4. An Amalgamationist in Limbo for the Second Time

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: New York Herald
    Date: Mar. 9, 1842
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Prisons, Racism
    Subject: Beefsteak Pete, John Brown, Peter Sewally
    Description: Content warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to racist and transphobic language.
  5. An Amalgamationist in Limbo for the Second Time

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 9, 1842
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Peter Sewally
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to the use of racist language.
  6. An amateur actor in drag, holding flowers and a parasol, poses in front of delicately painted backdrop. Photographic postcard, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: A man in drag poses wearing light robes and an ornate hat. A World War I concert party comedy drag act. The unidentified drag character is wearing androgynous 'Chinese' outfit and carrying chrysant...
  7. An amateur actor in drag holds up his impressive folded dress to one side. Photographic postcard, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: The man in drag is posing with his right leg side-on as he holds up his dress. Amateur theatrical performer Mr. Vic Thorne, at Hyde, Cheshire, photographed in front of a painted drop at the studio ...
  8. An amateur actor in drag poses with an open parasol, in front of painted scenery. Photographic postcard, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Amateur drag behind the lines, early in World War I. An unidentified performer twirls a Japanese parasol and wears a plain and printed lawn summer outfit posed before a painted drop. Dressed as a g...
  9. An amateur actor in drag, posing as as 'Ninon', wearing a white dress and hat. Photographic postcard, 192-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1920 to 1929?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag.
  10. An amateur actor in drag, wearing a flapper dress and white footwear. Photographic postcard, 1925-1928.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1925? to 1928?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Mr. R. Morrell in drag is standing on rough ground. He poses in a 'flapper' style dress at an unidentified location, most likely an army camp. The fashion details (long ear pendants, sautoir neckla...
  11. An Announcement for a Demonstration Demanding Justice for Marsha P. Johnson

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Queer Nation
    Description: A leaflet from the "Justice for Marsha" group formed by Queer Nation announcing a demonstration to demand justice for Marsha P. Johnson's death.
  12. AN APPEAL FOR AN OLD TIMER.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: De Lulsi, Louise
    Date: 1911 to Jul. 22, 1912
    Topics: Family members, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Performance art
    Subject: Ella Wesner, Mary Wesner, Orpheum Theater, The New York Clipper
    Description: A clipping from "The New York Clipper" titled: "AN APPEAL FOR AN OLD TIMER," discussing Ella Wesner and her sister Mary Wesner. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  13. An Eccentric Countess

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 21, 1890
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Assigned gender, Clothing, Crossdressing, Debt, Families, Femininities, Friendships, Gender identity, Gender role, Imprisonment, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Psychology, Upbringing
    Subject: Marie Engelhardt, Sandor Vay, Sarolta Vay
    Description: The Morning Call (San Francisco, CA)
  14. An ensemble cast of British soldiers, some in drag, pose on stage. Photographic postcard, 1919.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1919
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: The characters are in a long line across the stage, some are seated, others standing, in a variety of costumes including 'realistic' and comic drag. Lanterns hang from the stage set. An unidentifie...
  15. An Evening in Copenhagen with Rae Bourbon (UTC 1)

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art
    Description: Two page program with writing " 'A bit of old San Francisco' best wishes" on the left, a photo of a person in a dress, with words underneath: "José, Nightingale Montgomery Street."