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  1. 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.'"

  2. Georgina Turtle at Work

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1948? to 1959?
    Topics: Dental offices, Intersex people, Transsexual people, Work
    Subject: Georgina Carol Turtle
    Description: Georgina Turtle taking an x-ray of a patient in a dental office.

  3. Georgina Turtle Playing the Piano

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1950? to 1957?
    Topics: Intersex people, Piano, Transsexual people
    Subject: Georgina Carol Turtle

  4. Roberta Cowell and Lisa Morrell in Cab in Nice (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Lisa Morrell, Roberta Cowell
    Description: According to the Transas City site: "From the back of the photograph: THE GIRL ALL THE WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT RESTS IN THE SUNSHINE AT NICE. On the Promenade des Anglais, Roberta and her comp...

  5. Roberta Cowell and Lisa Morrell in Nice (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Lisa Morrell, Picture Post, Roberta Cowell
    Description: From the Transas City Website: "Roberta Cowell in Nice, 1954, looking at her cover article on Picture Post. From the back of the photograph: ME ON THE COVER. ' Picture Post, with my story in ...

  6. Roberta Cowell at the Louvre in Paris, Viewing the Venus de Milo (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell, Venus de Milo
    Description: The following description was taken from the Getty Images website: "Transsexual Roberta Cowell, formerly Robert Cowell admires the Venus de Milo in the Louvre during a visit to Paris. Roberta was...

  7. Roberta Cowell in France (March 1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Loneliness, MtFs, Restaurants, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: According to Transas City the following is found on the back of the photograph: “…sometimes I felt lonely…” Dated Wednesday, 17 March, 1954.

  8. Roberta Cowell in French Streetcar (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1954
    Topics: Cable cars (Streetcars), MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell

  9. Roberta Cowell in Pisa, Italy (April 22, 1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Cameras, Leaning Tower (Pisa, Italy), MtFs, Photography, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: According to Transas City, the following appears on the back of the photograph: "Risking recognition, Roberta interrupts her escape to take pictures at Pisa."

  10. Roberta Cowell in Villefranche (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Gardens--France, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: According to Transas City the following is found on the back of the photograph: “The March sun was warm, and the roses were already in bloom, and no one knew me.”

  11. Roberta Cowell Outside Night Club in Nice (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Nightclubs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell

  12. Roberta Cowell Standing in Crowd

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: Description of the photo on the Getty Images site: "Transsexual Roberta Cowell, formerly Robert Cowell visits Paris with a friend. Roberta was once a Spitfire pilot, prisoner-of-war, racing mot...

  13. Roberta Cowell Driving Car (April 1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 1954
    Topics: Automobile driving, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell

  14. Roberta Cowell and Friend Shopping in French Market (April 22, 1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 22, 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Shopping, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: Transas City notes that the date attributed to this object is in question.

  15. Dual Portrait of Tamara Rees (November 22, 1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press International
    Date: Nov. 22, 1954
    Topics: LGBTQ+ newspapers, Military, MtFs, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Robert Egan Rees, Tamara Adel Rees
    Description: The following text appears at the bottom of the object, on a separate sheet of paper than the photographs: "NXP53-11/8-NEW YORK:Robert Egan Rees shown at left as a decorated paratrooper during W...

  16. Coccinelle Posing in Studded Bralet

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1952? to 1959?
    Topics: Actors, Entertainers, French, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Coccinelle
    Description: This image could possibly be from the film Europa di notte (1959,) but we are not certain.

  17. Tamara Rees Posing in Doorway (1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1955
    Topics: Autobiography, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: Tamara Edel Rees
    Description: This image is the frontispiece to Tamara Rees's autobiography “Reborn.”

  18. Tamara Rees Vacuuming at Home (July 28, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press International
    Date: Jul. 28, 1955
    Topics: LGBTQ+ newspapers, Marriage, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: J.E. Courtland, Robert Egan Rees, Tamara Edel Rees
    Description: Along the side of the photo appears the following text, on a separate sheet of paper: "BCP3-7/28-SACRAMENTO: Tamara Edel Rees Sweeps clean and starts life anew. She claims she was transformed fr...

  19. Tamara Rees Poses on Burlesque Stage with Husband, J.E. Courtland, III (July 29, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 29, 1955
    Topics: MtFs, Partners of transgender people, Theater, Transsexual people
    Subject: J.E. Courtland, Tamara Rees
    Description: The following text appears at the bottom of the object: "WILL LECTURE- Tamara Rees, paratrooper turned 'woman' by sex surgery, poses on the stage of a burlesque theater in Los Angeles with her ...

  20. Tamara Rees Backstage at Los Angeles' Club Oasis with Elaine Cayon (November 10, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Douglas, Bob
    Date: Nov. 10, 1955
    Topics: Dancers, MtFs, Strippers, Transsexual people
    Subject: Club Oasis, Elaine Cayon, Tamara Rees
    Description: The following text appears at the bottom of the object: "Leg Check: Embarked on a career as a night club strip teaser after undergoing a sex transformation operation in Denmark, an ex-GI billed...

  21. Georgina Turtle Displaying Her Wardrobe

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1950? to 1965?
    Topics: Dresses, Intersex people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Georgina Carol Turtle

  22. Coccinelle for Alessandro Blasetti's Europa di notte (1959)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Avers Films
    Date: 1959
    Topics: Actors, French, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Coccinelle, Europa di notte, European Nights
    Description: Coccinelle posing with clapperboard on the set of Europa di notte (European Nights).

  23. Dual Portrait of Georgina Turtle

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960
    Topics: Bathing suits, Beaches, Intersex people, Military uniforms, Transsexual people
    Subject: Georgina Carol Turtle
    Description: On the left Georgina Turtle pictured wearing military uniform and on the right wearing a bathing suit at the beach.

  24. Georgina Turtle at the Beach

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960
    Topics: Bathing suits, Beaches, Intersex people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Georgina Carol Turtle
    Description: Georgina Turtle appears to be posing for photograph with a hat in one of her hands.

  25. Georgina Turtle and Christopher Somerset Wedding Photograph

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 13, 1962
    Topics: Intersex people, Marriage, Transsexual people, Weddings
    Subject: Christopher Somerset, Georgina Carol Turtle