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  1. Sinbad the Sailor at the King’s

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 26, 1939
    Topics: Gender expression, LGBTQ+ musicians, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Charles A. Wenman, Corrie Loders, Dan Thomas, Don Munro, Josie Kean, King's Theatre, Mike McCormack, Neck Morton, Nellie Kolle, Sinbad the Sailor, The Age Newspaper
    Description: Review of the opening night of "Sinbad the Sailor" at the King's Theatre in Australia, featuring Nellie Kolle.
  2. Stanley Cooke in drag as Charley's aunt. Photographic postcard, 19-- (?).

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1900 to 1999?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Publicity postcard for Stanley Cook in 'Charley's aunt', the phenomenally successful farce by Brandon Thomas, which broke all theatre records in London when, after its opening in 1893, it ran for 1...
  3. Stepping Out, Warden and West Issue (1939)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1939
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Female impersonators
    Description: Warden and West, comedy stars of the Windmill Theatre: the duo are male comedians in drag playing parts of saucy old Irish women, Biddy and Fanny. The set is designed to look like a park, the two s...
  4. Terry Bartlett in drag. Photograph, 193-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1930 to circa 1940
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: The actor, in drag, wears a thin black dress and sits looking upwards smiling; with styled blonde hair. He holds his lower leg with one hand as his knee is upright, drawn in towards his torso. The ...
  5. Torch Club Last 4 Days: Danny Brown's Female Impersonators In Glorifying the American Boy

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 2, 1939
    Topics: Drag queens, Female impersonators, Night life
    Subject: Danny Brown, Jackie Starr, Torch Club
  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. Two young boys in single beds applying make-up and perfume to themselves. Colour process print after Rob-Vel, 193-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1930 to 1939?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: Romantic fantasy and comic postcards, and photographs on gender and masculinity.
  8. Unidentified Person Smoking, Early 1900s

     
    Collection: Kentucky History
    Institution: Faulkner Morgan Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1900s
    Topics: Photography, Smoking
  9. Visit Jimmy Slater's Happy Valley Mascots Concert Party

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1939
    Topics: Concerts, Performing arts
    Subject: Jimmy Slater
  10. We're Not a Danger to Your Family. We Are Your Family!

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1900s
    Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Families, LGBTI community, Pink triangles
    Description: Blue circular button with upside-down rainbow triangle. Text: "We're not a danger to your family. WE ARE YOUR FAMILY!" Ruler also pictured for scale.