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  1. Ralph Mellor in drag. Photographic postcard by L.S. Langfier, 192-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1920 to 1929?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  2. Ready for the Mummer's Parade

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 31, 1915
    Topics: Costumes, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Parades
    Subject: Frank Carter
    Description: An article in the Evening Ledger featuring Frank Carter, a female impersonator who will be marching in a New Year's parade.
  3. Reed Erickson as teenager

     
    Collection: Reed Erickson Collection
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1931 to 1932
    Topics: Transgender people
    Subject: Reed Erickson
    Description: Reed Erickson at age 14. Circa 1931-1932.
  4. Reed Erickson at young age

     
    Collection: Reed Erickson Collection
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1928
    Topics: Transgender people
    Subject: Reed Erickson
    Description: Reed Erickson at 10 or 11 years old. Circa 1928.
  5. Reg Stone, in drag, wearing a fur coat. Process print, 1927.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1927
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: He poses with styled hair, gazing over his shoulder. Reg Stone was the star of 'Splinters', one of the concert parties formed in France by British servicemen in World War I. The group re-formed aft...
  6. Reg Stone wearing smart men's attire. Process print, 1923.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1923
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  7. Reg Wright in drag. Photographic postcard by Dyche, 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’.
  8. Remarkable Career of Woman in Trousers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 9, 1910
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mental disorders, Military, Motherhood, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: A Modern Sphinx, A.L. Martinez, All the Year Round, Basil Brooke, Daily Mail, Elena Smith, Harry Lloyd, James Barry, Josias Cleote, Marie Le Roy, Sandwell Clerke
    Description: Bisbee Daily Review (Bisbee, AZ)
  9. Rev J.M. Gates - "Manish Women" (1930)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1930
    Topics: Appearance, Black people, Femininities, Gender role, Masculinities, Sexism
    Subject: J.M. Gates
    Description: Rev Gates was probably the most successful ministers in the South. He was definitely of the fire-and-brimstone call-and-response type, and was unique in that many of his sermons were recorded, abou...
  10. Richards & Pringle's Famous Minstrels

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 19, 1915
    Topics: BIPOC, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Minstrel shows
    Subject: Great Gauze, Richards & Pringles Georgia Minstrels, Willis Gauze
    Description: A clipping from the Ashland Tidings about the Richards & Pringle's Famous Minstrels show programme mentioning the Great Gauze, a female impersonator.
  11. Ringing The Changes (1922)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 20, 1922
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Female impersonators
    Subject: Bert Errol
    Description: Drag act Bert Errol is seen in his dressing room - he changes from men's clothes to women's. C/U of Bert in his dressing room. He looks into a hand mirror and primps his hair whilst a woman atte...
  12. Robert Bertin in drag as a geisha. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1910
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  13. Robert Bertin in drag as Clotilde Alégria, posing with a gun. Process print, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Robert Bertin was the foremost French female impersonator of the first decade of the twentieth century. He was a skilled impersonator of some of the stars of the French popular theatre. Here he imi...
  14. Roberta Cowell in the Kitchen

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1945 to 1957
    Topics: Cooking, Kitchens, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Women biographers
    Subject: Picture Post, Roberta Cowell
    Description: Below the photo the following quote appears: "'Cooking was unexpectedly exciting.'"
  15. Roberta Cowell in World War II (1947)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (circa 1900-1950)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1947
    Topics: Air pilots, Military, Military uniforms, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people, World War, 1939-1945
    Subject: Roberta Cowell