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  1. A mechanical and critical enquiry into the nature of hermaphrodites

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator: Parsons, James
    Date: 1741
    Topics: Intersex, Medicalization
    Subject: Androgyni, Hans Sloane, The Royal Society of London
    Description: This scientific treatises on intersex people presents a historical and biological overview. While motivated by reductive understandings of bodies and reproducing objectifying understandings of inte...

  2. A morning frolic

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 25, 1780
    Topics: Animals, Appearance, Clothing, Couples, Crossdressing, Soldiers, Visual arts
    Description: Two people in a bedroom by a table set for tea. One is wearing a dress, along with a soldier's hat and a sword; conversely, the other is wearing soldier's vestments and has a women's wig and fan.

  3. 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...

  4. Biography – Madam Chevalier D'Eon

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Watters, James
    Date: Mar. 23, 1799
    Topics: Crossdressers

  5. Chatham, Oct. 30

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Fleet, T.
    Date: Apr. 15, 1756
    Topics: Crossdressing, Sailors

  6. Chevalier D-E-n returned, or, the Stock-Brokers outwitted

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1771
    Topics: Etching, Gender diversity, Magazine illustration, Passing (Gender), Stockbrokers
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée

  7. Chevalier d'--n producing his evidence

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1769
    Topics: Animals, Combat, Etching, Indigenous peoples, Politics, Wars
    Subject: Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee d'Eon de Beaumont, Chevalier D'Eon
    Description: Two groups are depicted fighting, some in each group are depicted anthropomorphic animals.

  8. Curious Sketches of Singular Characters

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Granger, James
    Date: Sep. 7, 1775
    Topics: Beauty standards, Courts, Crimes, Intersex people, Masculinities, Politics, Royalty
    Subject: Mary Frith, Richard Brown

  9. Delpini a la Rossi

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator: Sayers, James
    Date: Apr. 26, 1785
    Topics: Crossdressing, Etching, Opera, Performing arts, Visual arts
    Description: "Delpini, dressed as a woman, both arms held above his head, runs forward in profile to the left imitating a dancer. Beneath the title is etched: "Grace was in all her Steps" &c."--British Muse...

  10. Engraving of Androgynous Person

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1690
    Topics: Androgyny, Intersex people, Nude art

  11. Female Heroism

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Universal Magazine, The American Museum
    Date: Mar. 1792
    Topics: Army, Crossdressers
    Subject: Robert Shurtlieff

  12. Gemmarum Series

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator: Mynde, James
    Date: 1745
    Topics: Androgyny, Intersex people, Nude art
    Description: Etching of Roman Empire era jewelry cameos. Figure II depicts a person with breasts and a penis with satyrs.

  13. Glossographia

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Blount, Thomas
    Date: 1656
    Topics: Transfemininity, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Sir Thomas Browne
    Description: On the page with the signature Rr4v, the words "Transection" and "Transfeminate" are defined. Both terms are attributed to "Dr. Br." in reference to the physician and influential writer Sir Thomas ...

  14. La Chevalier D'Eon's Answer to the Orator of the Human Race

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 10, 1792
    Topics: French revolution, Gender, Military, Politics
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon

  15. Lady S---- B------ habited as a clergyman

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1769
    Topics: Appearance, Clergy, Clothing, Crossdressing, Etching, Social norms
    Subject: Sarah Bunbury
    Description: A women is pictured crossdressing as a clergyman.