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  1. She Will Fight for Right to Wear Trousers, and Ask President Roosevelt to Help Her

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 11, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masquerading
    Description: Newspaper clipping about a woman fighting for her right to wear men's trousers and being sent to prison for crossdressing. Item reproduced at highest resolution available. This item was contributed...

  2. Shot Female Impersonator: Negro in Woman's Garb Slashes Policemen and Is Killed

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 22, 1908
    Topics: Black people, Clothing, Female impersonators, Mass media, Police, Race relations, Violence
    Subject: George Thompson

  3. 'Silly Kid' Tries to Dupe Sleuths: "Female Impersonator" Objects to Being Arrested by Men Not in Uniform

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 18, 1908
    Topics: Actors, Arrests, Courts, Female impersonators, Harassment, Police, Theatre
    Subject: Jean D'Arville

  4. Tong-Fighting Actor Slips Away

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 24, 1908
    Topics: BIPOC, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Chinese People, Mun Woo Kee
    Description: An article in The Pacific commercial advertiser about Mun Woo Kee, a Chinese female impersonator.

  5. Trousers Not Allowed; Skirts Mean Arrests

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 5, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masquerading
    Subject: Augusta Seib
    Description: Clipping from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle where Augusta Seib talks about being arrested if they wear trousers and stopped by police if they wear skirts. This item was contributed to DTA by Hugh Ryan.

  6. Two Unidentified Women, Early 1900s

     
    Collection: Kentucky History
    Institution: Faulkner Morgan Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1900s
    Topics: Photography
    Description: Two women dressed in male clothing pose for a photo on a rug next to a wall.

  7. Unidentified Person Smoking, Early 1900s

     
    Collection: Kentucky History
    Institution: Faulkner Morgan Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1900s
    Topics: Photography, Smoking

  8. Wears Man's Attire in Order to Earn Living

     
    Collection: Frank Woodhull Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 30, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ immigrants, Trans men, Transgender people, Transmasculinity
    Description: A clipping from The Mitchell Capital (Mitchell, SD) describing Frank Woodhull's immigration to the United States.

  9. Woman Lives as a Man for Nine Years.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 7, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masquerading
    Subject: Augusta Seib
    Description: Clipping talking about Augusta Seib's crossdressing. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.

  10. Woodhull in New-York Daily Tribune

     
    Collection: Frank Woodhull Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ immigrants, Trans men, Transgender people, Transmasculinity
    Subject: Frank Woodhull
    Description: Frank Woodhull, after living for 15 years as a man, was inspected for tuberculosis at Ellis Island, where his birth name was found out. Woodhull is of English and Canadian descent. Woodhull express...

  11. Woodhull in The New York Times

     
    Collection: Frank Woodhull Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ immigrants, Trans men, Transgender people, Transmasculinity
    Subject: Frank Woodhull
    Description: A newspaper article that describes Frank Woodhull's entrance to Ellis Island in 1908. Woodhull is said to be 50 years old, from Canada, and wearing a dark suit, a hat, and having a mustache. The ar...

  12. Woodhull in The New York Times

     
    Collection: Frank Woodhull Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 6, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ immigrants, Trans men, Transgender people, Transmasculinity
    Subject: Frank Woodhull
    Description: A newspaper article announcing that the Board of Special Inquiries has allowed Frank Woodhull to continue living publicly as a man, instead of being known by his birth name. There are quotations at...

  13. Woodhull in The Sun (NYC)

     
    Collection: Frank Woodhull Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ immigrants, Trans men, Transgender people, Transmasculinity
    Subject: Frank Woodhull
    Description: A newspaper article detailing Frank Woodhull's arrival at Ellis Island, his physical description, and how the doctor who inspected him for tuberculosis prompted Woodhull to reveal that he is also k...