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  1. A sailor on H.M.S St. Vincent, in drag as a bride in a performance of 'The Great Casimir'. Photographic postcard, 1918.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1918
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Able seaman Smith is dressed as a bride, "Ninetta", holding a bouquet of flowers, in front of a leafy painted backdrop. He is wearing a high waisted frock with a short train of the kind fashionable...
  2. A Seated Performer Poses for a Photograph

     
    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
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: A performer poses seated in a chair wearing a two piece dress and matching hat. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen.
  3. A Seated Performer Poses for a Photograph

     
    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
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: A seated performer poses in a two-piece dress. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen.
  4. A Service in Memory of Marsha P. Johnson

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 23, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ memorials, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A program from a memorial service for Marsha P. Johnson.
  5. A Sex Change in the Strand

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Green, James
    Date: Jan. 15, 1980
    Topics: Actors, Humour, Plays, Pornography, Theatre
    Subject: Michael Crawford, No Sex
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  6. A shoeshine boy cleans the boots of a man in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1905.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1905
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: The boy wears a registration number on his sleeve. In the background, a painted backdrop showing a city street. A photographic comic card produced by the firm of Bamforth, circa 1905. This genre of...
  7. A soldier who ecaped from the Turks dressed as a woman; advertising the military magazine "The Wide World". Photographic postcard, ca. 1918.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1918
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Postcard reproduction of a cover of 'Wide World Magazine' (published London 1898-1965) showing a soldier in drag, with him in military uniform inset, with text alluding to how the soldier "escaped ...
  8. A Streetcar Named Desire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Francis, Miller
    Date: Dec. 18, 1972
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Feminism, Film, Homosexuality, Misogyny, Reviews, Sexual revolution
    Subject: A Streetcar Named Desire, Oscar Wilde, Salome, Tennessee Williams
  9. A travers les coulisses

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Paris sur Scene
    Date: 1925
    Topics:  
    Description: Female impersonator as a showgirl in her dress room.
  10. A Trick on Her Friend

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 4, 1906
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Imprisonment, LGBTQ+ relationships
    Subject: Lina Pauly, Salome Lejeune
  11. A Ukrainian prisoner of war performing a dance at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag.
  12. A ventriloquist in drag, known as "Thora ?". Photographic postcard, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators, Ventriloquists
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  13. A Vision of Community: The First All-FTM Conference of the Americas

     
    Collection: East Coast FTM Group Organizational Records
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: FTM International
    Date: circa 1995
    Topics: Coming out, Families, FtMs, LGBTQ+ partners, LGBTQ+ relationships, Racism, Sexuality, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS), Chrysalis Quarterly, Creative Design Services, David Harrison, Donald Laub, Educational TV Channel (ETVC), Identity Management in Transsexualism: A Practical Guide to Managing Identity on Paper, Ingersoll Gender Center, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Jamison Green, Jason Cromwell, John Garrigues, Larry Brinkin, Loren Cameron, Michael Brownstein, New College, Community United Against Violence (CUAV), San Francisco Human Rights Commission, Shadow Morton, Sky Renfro, Stephen Thorne, Steve Dain
  14. A Woman, Crossdressed in Black Leathers, Started the Riots at Stonewall

     
    Collection: East Coast FTM Group Organizational Records
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Lesbian Connection, FTM
    Date: circa 1989
    Topics: Battering, Crossdressing, Drag queens, FtMs, Lesbians, Police raids, Stonewall riots
    Subject: Anne Tracy, Harry Beard, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), John D'Emilio, Lesbian Tide, San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States 1940-1970, The Village Voice
  15. A Woman-Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 14, 1901
    Topics: Alcohol, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Employment discrimination, Passing (Gender), Prejudices
    Subject: Murray Hamilton Hall
    Description: Colfax Gazette (Colfax, Washington)