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  1. Years in Masquerade

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 10, 1895
    Topics: Arrests, Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Lady's maids, Parks, Police, Prisoners
    Subject: Estelle Lawrence, Reginald Culton, Violet Beacon, Violet Dell
    Description: Waterbury Evening Democrat (Waterbury, Connecticut)

  2. Women in Men's Clothes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Philadelphia Ledger
    Date: Jun. 28, 1866
    Topics: Army, Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Crossdressing, Gender role, Physicians
    Subject: Mary Walker
    Description: The Public Ledger (Memphis, Tennessee)

  3. What is it?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 21, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Medical examinations, Prisoners

  4. The Woman Who Married the Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 17, 1842
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Marriage

  5. The Milwaukee Girl Appears in Court in Male Attire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 20, 1893
    Topics: Adoption, Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Siblings
    Subject: Annie Morris, Chief Janssen, Chief of Police McGrath, Detective Frank Miller, Frank Blunt Held, Judge Watson
    Description: Wood County Reporter (Grand Rapids, Wisconsin)

  6. The Men in Petticoats in London

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 10, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Cosmetics, Courts, Crossdressing, Jewelry, Passing (Gender), Police
    Subject: Arthur Clinton
    Description: Alexandria Gazette (Alexandra, D.C.)

  7. The Masqueraders.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: English Lord and American Consul
    Date: Jul. 5, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Navy, Sodomy laws
    Subject: Arthur Pelham Clinton, C. H. Thomas, Edward I, Edward XIX, George II, John S. Fisk, Louis Charles Hurt, Martin Luther Cumming, New York World, William Summerville

  8. The Man Countess Again

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 29, 1891
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Marriage, Masculinities, Medical examinations, Passing (Gender), Upbringing
    Subject: Marie Engelhardt, Sandor Vay, Sarolta Vay
    Description: The Sun (New York, NY)

  9. The Charge Against "Gentlemen" Personating Women

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 4, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Criminalization, Crossdressers, Crossdressing

  10. The Boulton Masquerade

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 30, 1870
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Clothing, Crimes, Gatherings, Gender, Secrecy

  11. Six Years for Harry Mortimer: The Nimble-Fingered Female Impersonator Must Go to Prison

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Inter Ocean
    Date: Oct. 19, 1895
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Body adornment, Courts, Female impersonators, Police, Sentencing
    Subject: Harry Mortimer

  12. She Posed as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 14, 1893
    Topics: Arrests, Families, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Smoking
    Subject: Annie Morris, Frank Blunt
    Description: Rock Island Daily Argus (Rock Island, Illinois)

  13. Romantic Paupers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1867
    Topics: Arrests, Families, Gender, LGBTQ+ lovers, Poverty, Secrecy
    Subject: Ada Perry, Joseph Israel Lobdell

  14. Romance of a Poor Young Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 19, 1889
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Labour
    Subject: Frank James, Jesse James, Joseph Cox, Josephine Cox, Marshel Chappel
    Description: The Bottineau Pioneer (Bottineau, ND)

  15. Pink-Cheeked Reginald

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: New York Recorder
    Date: Aug. 18, 1895
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender segregation in labour, Physicians, Workhouses
    Subject: Estelle Lawrence, Reginald Culton
    Description: The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana)

  16. Peter Sewally, alias Ann Eliza Erans, alias Beef Steak Pete

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 24, 1846
    Topics: Arrests, Black people, Crossdressers
    Subject: Beefsteak Pete
    Description: Content warning: contains potentially racist and transphobic material related to racist and transphobic language.

  17. Milwaukee Special

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 21, 1893
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, Crossdressing
    Subject: Annie Morris, Frank Blunt, Jesse Blunt
    Description: Dakota Farmers' Leader (Canton, SD)

  18. In Male Attire: Remarkable Career of a Female Who Passed for a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Terra Haute Gazette
    Date: Sep. 20, 1875
    Topics: Androgyny, Arrests, Dance, Female impersonators, Law, Minstrel shows, Music, Police, Theatre, Theatre groups
    Subject: Ella Seigen, John Johnson, St. Leon

  19. Impersonator Willis: Arrest of an Alleged St. Louisman in New York

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Republic Bureau
    Date: Feb. 19, 1895
    Topics: Androgyny, Arrests, Clothing, Female impersonators, Gender identity, Police, Social norms, Taboos
    Subject: Charles Willis

  20. Girl-Boys

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 4, 1858
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, Gender, International relations

  21. Girl-Boys

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 21, 1876
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressers, Femininities, Masculinities

  22. Foreign

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 14, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing
    Subject: Frederick William Park, Thomas Ernest Boulton
    Description: Public Ledger (Memphis, Tenn.)

  23. For Fifteen Years a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 14, 1893
    Topics: Arrests, Child abuse, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Annie Morris, Frank Blunt
    Description: Alexandra Gazette (Alexandria, DC)

  24. For Brother's Guilt

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 10, 1899
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, Crossdressing, Imprisonment, LGBTQ+ partners, Police officers, Siblings
    Subject: Elbert Glenn, Ella Duke, Ellis Glenn, James Duke, Nellie Duke, T. H. Terry

  25. Extraordinary Cause of a Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 1, 1836
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, FtMs, LGBTQ+ partners, Marriage, Passing (Gender), Prisoners
    Subject: Eliza Cummings, George Moore Wilson, James Walker, Jane Walker
    Description: The North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, North Carolina)

  26. European News Items

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Weekly Alta California
    Date: Jul. 16, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing

  27. England

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 9, 1871
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing
    Subject: Frederick William Park, Thomas Ernest Boulton
    Description: Public Ledger (Memphis, Tenn.)

  28. Ellis Glenn Surrendered.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 20, 1899
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, Crossdressing, Imprisonment
    Subject: Ella Dukes, Ellis Glenn, J. C. Richardson
    Description: New Ulm Review (New Ulm, Minnesota)

  29. Ellis Glenn in Parkersburg.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Parkersburg News
    Date: Dec. 15, 1899
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Medical examinations, Physical characteristics
    Subject: Bettie Cole, Ellis Glenn, Hillsboro Jail, J. M. Jackson, Jude Richardson, Mollie Uhl-Rader
    Description: Marietta Daily Leader (Marietta, Ohio)

  30. "Ellis Glenn" in Jail

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1, 1889
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Assigned gender, Clothing, Crossdressing, Forgery, Imprisonment, Labour, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Siblings
    Subject: Ella Dukes, Ellis Glenn, Nellie Dukes

  31. Czar's Officials as Flirts

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 2, 1894
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, FtMs
    Subject: A. E. Rachatte, George Burns, John Hayes, Nicolai De Raylan
    Description: Watertown Republican (Watertown, WI)

  32. Crossdressing in London and Texas

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 27, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Black people, Clothing, Crossdressing, Slavery
    Subject: Dick Montgomery
    Description: Nashville Union and American (Nashville, Tennessee)

  33. Conviction of Beefsteak Pete

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 13, 1848
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Theft
    Subject: Beefsteak Pete, Julia Johnson, Michael Bonney, Peter Sewally
    Description: Newspaper Clipping about the alleged thievery committed by "Beefsteak Pete".

  34. Conform to the Times

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Morris, George P.
    Date: 1831
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities

  35. Career of "Mr." Glenn

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 2, 1899
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Identity, LGBTQ+ partners, Passing (Gender), Physical characteristics, Prisons, Twins
    Subject: Alice Glenn, Amos Oller, Chester Penitentiary, Chicago Tribune, Duncan McLean, Elbert Glenn, Ella Dukes, Ellis Glenn, James Dukes, John McLean, Marshall Winters, Nellie Dukes, Sigma Sigma Club, T. H. Terry

  36. Beefsteak Pete Arrested

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 4, 1858
    Topics: Arrests, Black people, Crimes, Crossdressing, Theft
    Subject: Beefsteak Pete

  37. Beefsteak Pete Arrested

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 3, 1858
    Topics: Arrests, Black people, Crimes, Crossdressing
    Subject: Beefsteak Pete

  38. "Annie Morris" Guilty

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 29, 1893
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Annie Morris, Frank Blunt, J.G. Perkins
    Description: Watertown Republican (Watertown, Wisconsin)

  39. Annie Morris Duel Life

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 16, 1893
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Crossdressing, Occupations, Passing (Gender), Youth
    Subject: Annie Morris, Frank Blunt

  40. Annie Gets One Year

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 10, 1894
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Imprisonment, Marriage, Masculinities
    Subject: Annie Morris, Frank Blunt, Gertrude Field

  41. An Extraordinary Case of Bigamy

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Snowden, Edgar
    Date: 1834
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Marriage, Masculinities

  42. An Eccentric Countess

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 21, 1890
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Assigned gender, Clothing, Crossdressing, Debt, Families, Femininities, Friendships, Gender identity, Gender role, Imprisonment, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Psychology, Upbringing
    Subject: Marie Engelhardt, Sandor Vay, Sarolta Vay
    Description: The Morning Call (San Francisco, CA)

  43. A Woman Was Arrested

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 20, 1882
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, FtMs
    Description: Daily Globe (St. Paul, MN.)

  44. A Woman Conceals Her Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 7, 1860
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, MtFs, Physical characteristics, Stealth (Transgender)
    Description: Cincinnati Daily Press (Cincinnati, OH)

  45. A Woman.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 28, 1899
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Crimes, Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ partners, Prisons
    Subject: Chester Glenn, Ella Dukes, Ellis Glenn, Southern Illinois Penitentiary

  46. A Wild Woman's Story

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 26, 1878
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Firearms, Hunting, Marriage, Occupations, Social classes, Trapping, Woods
    Subject: Female Hunter of Long Eddy, Harry Slater, Joseph Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell, Mary Ann Slater, Mrs.Wilson
    Description: The Cambria Freeman (Ebensburg, PA)

  47. A Strange Life History: The Death of a Modern Diana-Lucy Slater's Thrilling Adventures

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The New York Times
    Date: Oct. 8, 1879
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Clothing, Health, Hunting, Marriage, Social classes
    Subject: Female Hunter of Long Eddy, George Slater, Joseph Israel Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell Slater, Marie Louise Perry Wilson

  48. A Strange Life History

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 8, 1879
    Topics: Arrests, Books, Crossdressing, Hunting, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: George Slater, Joseph Israel Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell Slater, Marie Louise Perry Wilson, Mary Slater
    Description: The Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis, IN)

  49. A Sorry Plight

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 6, 1883
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Marriage, Passing (Gender), Pregnancy
    Subject: Frank Dubois, Gertrude Fuller, S. J. Hudson
    Description: Daily Evening Bulletin (Marysville, KY)

  50. A Singular Case and A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 16, 1836
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Marriage, Physicians, Prisoners, Secrecy
    Subject: George Wilson, James Walker, Jane Walker

  51. A Masquerader Sent to the Workhouse

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 11, 1895
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Femininities, Parks, Workhouses
    Subject: Estelle Lawrence, Reginald Culton
    Description: The New York Tribune (New York, New York)

  52. A London Correspondence

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The New York Times
    Date: Aug. 26, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Arthur Clinton, J.S. Fiske, The New York Times
    Description: Burlington Weekly Free Press (Burlington, VT)

  53. A Female "Husband" Robs His Wife and Decamps

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 22, 1865
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Theft

  54. A Crack Shot

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 17, 1881
    Topics: Abduction, Arrests, Books, Crossdressing, Gender role, Hunting, Marriage
    Subject: Benjamin K. Bortree, David Fortnam, George W. Slater, Henry W. Shouse, Joseph Israel Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell, Mary Perry, Mary Slater
    Description: Butler Citizen (Butler, PA)

  55. A Celebrated Case of Rebel Outrage

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 21, 1876
    Topics: Arrests, Black people, Crossdressing