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Francis Russell, promotional photograph
Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection Institution: University of Washington Libraries Creator: Date: circa 1930 to 1960 Topics: Drag, Drag performers, Drag queens, Female impersonators Subject: Francis Russell Description: Promotional photograph of Francis Russell smiling in a sleeveless, black sequined mermaid dress, a layered necklace, and above the elbow, black fingerless gloves. -
George Coutts in drag. Photographic postcard, 194-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1940 to 1949? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
German actors, some in drag, gather on stage at a party. Photographic postcard, 1930-45.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1930? to 1945? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The actors, playing a variety of characters, are drinking and in conversation on stage, with lanterns hanging from the layered stage ceiling. A German amateur theatrical (presumably military) group... -
Ginny Knuth Family Album
Collection: ETVC Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: Date: 1930 to 1998 Topics: Allies, Cisgender women, Gender non-conforming people, Partners of crossdressers, Transgender people, Transvestites Subject: Educational TV Channel (ETVC), Ginny Knuth Description: A family photo album from the papers of Ginny Knuth, a cisgender member of Educational Transvestite Channel (later called TransGender San Francisco). Knuth's partner identified as a crossdresser an... -
Group Photo at Mona's
Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949) Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: 1940 to circa 1949 Topics: Crossdressing, Male impersonators, Photography Subject: Beverly Shaw, Butch Minton, Jan Jansen, Jimmy Reynard, Kay Scott, Mona's Club Description: Picture taken at Mona's; standing (L to R) "Butch", Jan Jansen, Kay Scott, Jimmy Reynard; seated (L to R) "Mike", Beverly Shaw, unidentified, "Mickey" -
Group Photo of Finocchio's Performers
Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949) Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: 1940s Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography Subject: Finocchio's Club -
Harry Gordon performing in drag. Photographic postcard, 194-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1940 to 1949? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The actor in drag is dressed in day clothes -
Headshot of a 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 Description: This photograph is a headshot of one of the performers of the musical, "Look At Us Now". This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen. -
Henri Defreyn in drag as a geisha. Process print after G. Dupont, 19--.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1900 to 1999? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Henri Defreyn performing a parody of Sada Yacco, geisha and actress. The extremely popular Japanese entertainer Sada Yacco had toured the world 1900-1903 and caused a sensation wherever she went. S... -
Jackie Maye at Jewel Box Night Club
Collection: Ephemera Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: 1940s Topics: Dancers, Drag, Entertainers, Female impersonators Subject: Jackie Maye, Jewel Box Night Club, Jewel Box Revue, Toots La May -
Jean Evol in drag in front of painted background
Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection Institution: University of Washington Libraries Creator: Date: circa 1930 to 1960 Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag queens Subject: Garden of Allah, Jean Evol Description: A photograph of Jean Evol posing in front of a painted wallpaper wearing a plaid maxi dress and a floral hat. There is writing on the photograph: "For Paris, If you were pretty like me you w... -
Jimmy Slater in drag. Photographic postcard, 1945.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1945 Topics: Female impersonators Description: He is wearing a delicately patterned dress, has styled blonde hair and is smiling at the viewer. Jimmy Slater (1896-1996) enjoyed one of the longest and most successful careers as a drag artist, en... -
John Lindstrom in drag. Photographic postcard, 19--.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1900 to 1999 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Little Waltz Fooled a Cop
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Transas City Creator: Cowan, J. Harold Date: Nov. 21, 1945 Topics: Arrests, Female impersonators, Police Subject: Edward E. Kinney, John W. White -
Look At Us Now
Collection: Military Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Greig, Thomas G., Benjamin, Don Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945 Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers, Songs Subject: Albert Goepper, Arthur Sussman, Bertram Glick, Bruce Snyder, Charles Gaynor, Charles Jackson, Domenick Passantino, Don Hammond, Don Tanner, Dorothy Godfried, Erno Valesek, Frank Liguori, Geoffrey Stoughton, Gerald Meier, Gordon Pulis, Gregory Raffa, Harold Copenhaver, Harold R. Tharp, Harry Rantsch, Henry Johnson, Ivan D. Genuchi, Jack Knuppel, John Williams, Lehman Cheshire, Look At Us Now, Murray Cornelius, Paul D'Antuono, R. Mitchel, Robert Mols, Robert Shortmeyer, Robert Stubbs, Sam Cohen, Virgil Fox, Warren Halt, William King
