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  1. Newport, July, 30

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 30, 1764
    Topics: Clothing, Femininities, FtMs, Marriage, Masculinities, Transgender people, Warrant officers, Widowed people
    Subject: Deborah Lewis
  2. 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
  3. The Masculine Gender

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator: Kingsbury, Henry
    Date: Feb. 2, 1787
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Etching, Gender, Masculinities, Visual arts
    Description: A rather mannish-looking woman with a large hat and an enormous parasol walks away from us to the right, holding up her skirts in back with her left hand and revealing tall boots, stockings and a b...
  4. 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
  5. An Odd Connexion

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Meacham, R.
    Date: Jun. 1, 1838
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressing, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
  6. Jewesses on a Frolic

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1845
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Judaism, Masculinities
  7. Disguised Females

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: The New-York Organ
    Date: Jun. 25, 1853
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender role, Marines, Masculinities
    Subject: Hannah Snell
  8. "Harry" Stokes the Man-Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 17, 1859
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Gender identity, Marriage, Masculinities, Sexual assault, Suicide
  9. "Harry" Stokes, the Man-Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 17, 1859
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressing, Gender role, Masculinities, Poverty, Suicide
    Subject: Harry Stokes
  10. The Female Husband and Male Wife

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 21, 1868
    Topics: Crossdressers, Femininities, Marriage, Masculinities, Transgender people
  11. A Disguised Female Becomes Pugilistic in a New York Bar-Room

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 4, 1869
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masculinities
  12. Goddesses in Disguise; Or, Women in Masquerade

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 15, 1870
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Ethics, Femininities, Gender role, History, Masculinities, Sexual offenses laws
    Subject: Boulton Masquerade
  13. Miscellany

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1871
    Topics: Femininities, Gender role, Masculinities, Upbringing
  14. Free Love and Trousers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: May 27, 1871
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressers, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender role, Masculinities
    Subject: Mary Walker
  15. The Fastest Girl in New York

     
    Collection: Dime Novels
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Cabot, Colonel
    Date: 1873?
    Topics: Arranged marriage, Ballroom dancing, Bisexual women, Change of name, Crossdressing, Equestrian sports, Femininities, Gambling, Gender, Gender role, Homophobia, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Physical characteristics, Physical fitness, Police, Sports
    Subject: Ben Emerson, Bill McArdle, Cleopatra Clayton, Dan Bryant, Gallus Mag, Gil Fitzroy, Harry Bertolph, Harry Clifton, Harry Horton, Harry Prince, Hary Hill, Jack Perry, Josie Bourbon, Juan Mendez (Don Juan), Minnie Lord, Ned Sampson, Sue Martin, William Clayton
  16. City Summary

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 21, 1874
    Topics: Crossdressing, Femininities, Masculinities, Theatre
  17. Theatre Comique

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Bennett, James Gordon
    Date: Mar. 30, 1874
    Topics: Femininities, Gender identity, Masculinities, Theatre
  18. Girl-Boys

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

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 5, 1877
    Topics: Clothing, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ musicians, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Masculinities, Performance art
    Subject: Annie Hindle, Ella Wesner, Harry Beckett
    Description: A clipping from "Troy Times" titled: "SONG AND DANCE MEN," discussing performances by Ella Wesner, Annie Hindle, and Harry Beckett. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  20. A Most Wonderful Case: Death of a Woman Who for Twenty-Five Years Passed as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1880
    Topics: Agricultural occupations, Assigned gender, Death and dying, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Rheumatism, Stealth (Transgender), Transportation occupations
    Subject: Charley Parkhurst
  21. The Reported Man-Woman Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 3, 1880
    Topics: Clothing, Death and dying, Femininities, FtMs, Gender diversity, Masculinities, Medical examinations, Passing (Gender), Physicians, Soldiers, Transportation occupations
    Subject: Charley Parkhurst, Chevalier D'Eon
  22. Charley Parkhurst

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 17, 1880
    Topics: Alcohol, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Physical characteristics, Transportation occupations
    Subject: Charles H. Child, Charley Parkhurst, Ebenezer Balch, Frank Stevens, James Burch, Liberty Childs, Providence Journal, William Hayden
    Description: Evening Star (Washington, DC)
  23. A Queer Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Providence Press
    Date: Feb. 7, 1880
    Topics: Agricultural occupations, Assigned gender, Death and dying, Harassment, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Rheumatism, Transportation occupations, Travel
    Subject: Charley Parkhurst
    Description: Shepherdstown Register (Shepherdstown, VA)
  24. Charley Parkhurst

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 24, 1880
    Topics: Agricultural occupations, Assigned gender, Celibacy, Criminal occupations, Death and dying, Harassment, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Rheumatism, Smoking, Stealth (Transgender), Transportation occupations, Voting
    Subject: Charley Parkhurst
    Description: The Princeton Union (Princeton, Minnesota)
  25. A Remarkable Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 31, 1882
    Topics: Appearance, Essentialism, Heteronormativity, Intersex people, Love, Marriage, Masculinities, Separation, Surgery
    Subject: Burnham Novelty Company, Major W. L. Powell, St Paul Pioneer Press, Tribune
  26. Fifteen Years in Man's Attire.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 17, 1885
    Topics: Appearance, Businesses, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Frank Gray
  27. A Femenine Jehn

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 26, 1887
    Topics: Assigned gender, Death and dying, FtMs, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Transportation occupations
    Subject: Charley Parkhurst, Charlotte Parkhurst, Frank Parkhurst, Peter Elehebarne
    Description: The McCook Tribune (McCook, Nebraska)
  28. A Rathmines Romance

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 4, 1888
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Femininities, Masculinities, Role behavior, Roleplay, Transgender people, Widowed people
    Subject: Aouth Kensington School of Art, Freeman's Journal
  29. "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
  30. Won't Stop Being a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 28, 1890
    Topics: Appearance, Assigned gender, Baptism, Debt, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Upbringing
    Subject: Marie Engelhardt, Sandor Vay, Sarolta Vay
    Description: The Washington Critic (Washington, DC)
  31. She Played Her Part

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 4, 1890
    Topics: Appearance, Assigned gender, Baptism, Clothing, Debt, Gender identity, Imprisonment, Marriage, Masculinities, Upbringing
    Subject: Marie Engelhardt, Sandor Vay, Sarolta Vay
  32. 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)
  33. An Interesting Case: The Countess Sarolta Vay's Marriage to a Pretty Young Maiden

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: London Daily News
    Date: Nov. 20, 1890
    Topics: Crossdressing, FtMs, Legal process, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Krafft Ebing, Sandor Vay, Sarolta Vay
    Description: The Bossier Banner (Bellevue, LA)
  34. 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)
  35. Lived As A Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 19, 1892
    Topics: Death and dying, FtMs, Male impersonators, Masculinities, Transgender people, Wars
    Subject: Henry Junto, Myra Lawrence
  36. THE TAILOR MADE GIRL.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1893
    Topics: Clothing, Femininities, Gender roles, Masculinities
    Subject: Johnstone Bennett, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
    Description: A clipping from "The Brooklyn Daily Eagle" titled: "THE TAILOR MADE GIRL," discussing Johnstone Bennett's style. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  37. Studio receptions and bachelor teas are among…

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 12, 1893
    Topics: Femininities, Gender expression, Gender roles, Masculinities
    Subject: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
    Description: A clipping from "The Brooklyn Daily Eagle," discussing bachelor teas. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  38. 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)
  39. 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)
  40. 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)
  41. Has Always Lived as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 25, 1893
    Topics: Crossdressing, FtMs, Legal process, Marriage, Masculinities, Right to vote, Suffragettes
    Subject: Annie Morris, Frank Blunt, Lulu Seitz
    Description: Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, DC)
  42. Women in Trousers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 6, 1893
    Topics: Clothing, Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Daughters, Femininities, Gender role, Labour, Marriage, Masculinities, Mothers, Police, Smoking, Travel, Upbringing
    Subject: Emily Paxton, George Sand, Jane Dieulafoy, Josephine Cox, Louis Herman Tobush, Mary Walker, Robert Murdock Smith, Rosa Bonheur, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarolta Vay, Tom King
    Description: St. Paul Daily Globe (St. Paul, Minnesota)
  43. 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
  44. Andromania

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 6, 1895
    Topics: Female masculinity, Masculinities
    Description: A clipping from "The Brooklyn Daily Eagle," discussing "the passionate desire of women to ape everything that is mannish." This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  45. New Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 17, 1895
    Topics: Clothing, Female masculinity, Femininities, Gender roles, Masculinities
    Subject: Brooklyn Life
    Description: A clipping from "Brooklyn Life" discussing gender roles, masculinity, and femininity.
  46. Women Who Have Won Renown on the Battlefield

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 22, 1896
    Topics: Combat, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Masculinities, Military, Soldiers, Women
    Subject: Christine Davies, Hannah Snell, James Berry, John Taylor, Mary Ann Talbet, Mary Dixon, Mother Ross
  47. Stranger Than Fiction: Authenticated Story of a Singular Woman's Life

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: London Telegraph
    Date: Nov. 3, 1897
    Topics: Clothing, FtMs, Gender segregation in labour, Labour, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Catherine Coombs, Charley Wilson
  48. In Man's Attire: Catherine Coombs Worked with Men for Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 12, 1897
    Topics: Artists, Crossdressing, Femininities, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Masculinities
    Subject: Catherine Coombs, Charley Wilson, London Telegraph
  49. Ellis Glenn's Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 31, 1900
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing, Forgery, Gender segregation in labour, Legal process, Masculinities
    Subject: Ellis Glenn
  50. Sex Revealed at Death

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 18, 1901
    Topics: Breast cancer, Death and dying, FtMs, Job placement, Marriage, Masculinities, Men's organisations, Politics, Right to vote, Tammany Hall (Manhattan, New York, N.Y. : Fourteenth Street)
    Subject: Edward H. Hart, Iroquois Club, Minnie Hall, Murray Hall, Thomas McGlynn, William C. Gallagher
    Description: The Times (Washington, D.C.)
  51. Story of "Murray Hall" Told by Her Adopted Daughter

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 20, 1901
    Topics: Artists, Clothing, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Elections, Fishers, FtMs, Marriage, Masculinities, Miners, Politics
    Subject: Catherine Coombs, Celia Hall, Charlie Wilson, Chevalier D'Eon, Christina Becrens, Felix Francoine, Laure Bernard, Max Finegold, Minnie Hall, Murray Hall, Pierro Loganani
  52. Females Posed As Men

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 3, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Classification of diseases, Crossdressing, Diplomats, FtMs, Gender bending, Gender role, Hairdressers, Labour, Masculinities, Military, Military discharge, Miners, Passing (Gender), Popes, Sailors
    Subject: Beebe Bean, Catherine Coombs, Charles D. Fuller, Charles Morgan, Charlie Wilson, Chevalier D'Eon, Christian Cavanagh, Christian Welsh, Ellis Glenn, Frank Blunt, Frank Mayne, Frank Morris, Franklin Thompson, James Barry, Jane Westover, John Forest, Julia Forest, L. M. Blaylock, Louis HErman, Louise Watson, Maggie Curley, Marie Engelhardt, Mary Anne Talbot, Mary East, Minnie Briggs, Murray Hall, Nora Smith, Otto Schaffer, Sandor Vay, Sappho, Sarolta Vay, Tommy Lindley, Toniana Marinello, Tony Leesa
  53. The Murray Hall Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 14, 1901
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, Harassment, Marriage, Masculinities
    Subject: Murray Hall
  54. Masqueraded as Youth and Worked as Bellboy.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 2, 1901
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressers, Gender dysphoria, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Theodore Hoffman
  55. A Revealment Most Sensational

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 22, 1902
    Topics: Burial ceremonies, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Families, FtMs, Immigration, Love, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: George Green, Mary Green
    Description: The Times (Richmond, Virginia)
  56. Forty-Three Women Who Have Posed As Men

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 27, 1902
    Topics: Death and dying, Families, Fathers, FtMs, Marriage, Masculinities, Military, Passing (Gender), Smoking, Soldiers
    Subject: Alice Howard, Anna Talbot, Carlotta May, Caroline Hall, Charles D. Fuller, Chevalier D'Eon, Christian Cavanagh, Christian Walsh, Felix Francoine, Frank Wayne, Franklin Thompson, George Green, James Barry, John Taylor, L.N. Blaylock, Murray Hall, Tony Teesa, William Howard
  57. Masquerades Six Years as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 24, 1902
    Topics: Arrests, Childbirth, Childhood, Clothing, Diaries, Femininities, FtMs, Labour, LGBTQ+ poetry, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Sexual assault, Suicidal behavior
    Subject: Burt Martin, Caroline Hall, Christian Cavanagh, Ellis Glenn, Frank Wayne, George Green, Herman Gray Wood, James Barry, Lota Augustine Sawyer, Murray Hall, William C. Howard
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide.
  58. Maud Coxhead As A Witness

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 27, 1903
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Anthony Gibbon, Charlie Scott
  59. Concealed Her Sex For 40 Years.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 15, 1904
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressers, Femininities, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Joe Monahan
  60. Captain Weed, Woman.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 24, 1904
    Topics: Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender role, Masculinities, Sailors, Sexism
    Subject: John Weed
  61. America's Only Girl Bandit

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 8, 1904
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Crimes, Crossdressers, Gender role, Homeless people, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities
    Subject: Pearl Hart
  62. Romance Behind De Raylan Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 22, 1906
    Topics: Death and dying, FtMs, Inheritance law, Marriage, Masculinities
    Subject: Anne De Raylan, Baron von Schlippenbach, Harry George De Raylan, Nicolai De Raylan
    Description: The Star (Reynoldsville, PA)
  63. Baron Schlippenbach

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 7, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, Diplomats, Government, Labour, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Anna Terlessky, Baron von Schlippenbach, Nicolai De Raylan
  64. Bride Takes on Garb of Man; Not Detected for Nine Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 6, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender expression, Masculinities
    Subject: Augusta Seib, Johann Hoch
    Description: Clipping about Augusta Seib's crossdressing and why they did it. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  65. Happy as a Man, She Says, After 15 Years Posing

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1908
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, FtMs, Labour, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Sexism, Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Frank Woodhull, Mary Johnson, Mile de Maupin
    Description: The Evening World (New York, NY)
  66. Passed Off as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1908
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, FtMs, Immigration, Law, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Travel
    Subject: Frank Woodhull, Mary Johnson
    Description: Evening Star (Washington, DC)
  67. Allowed to Proceed in Male Attire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 7, 1908
    Topics: Clothing, FtMs, Immigration, Masculinities
    Subject: Frank Woodhull, Mary Johnson
    Description: The Forest Republican (Tionesta, PA)
  68. Girl Long Posed As A Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 15, 1909
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressers, Gender role, Masculinities
    Subject: James Davis, Mabel Davis
  69. The Women Pirates of America

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Spillane, R.
    Date: Nov. 14, 1909
    Topics: Crimes, Crossdressing, Femininities, Masculinities, Pirates
    Subject: Anne Bonny, John Rackam, Mary Reed
  70. Man Held on Charge of Stealing Silk Dress

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 25, 1910
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Female impersonators, Femininities, Masculinities, Police, Theatre
    Subject: La Nier Watts, Trixie
  71. Adventurous Lives of Women in Trousers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Neville, Rupert
    Date: Jul. 31, 1910
    Topics: Army, Arrests, Children, Clothing, Crossdressing, FtMs, Hospitals, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Suffragettes
    Subject: Bill Edwards, Catherine Coombs, Charlie Wilson, Christian Davis, Hannah Snell, Harry Lloyd, Harry T. Buford, John Taylor, Madame Velasquez, Marie Le Roy, Mary Anne Talbot
  72. Changing Clothes to Make Men Women and Women Men

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 21, 1911
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Female impersonators, Imprisonment, Law, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Billy Girard, C. T. Taletrifo, Helena Castle, Hetty King, Julian Eltinge, Lew Sully, Rose Driscoll, Rosw Grady, Sarah Bernhardt, Vesta Tilley
  73. Senator Taylor's Witticism

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Popular Magazine
    Date: Jun. 15, 1912
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masculinities, Physicians, United States. Congress--Leadership
    Subject: Bob Taylor, Mary Walker
    Description: The Day Book (Chicago, Illinois)
  74. Girl Lives 13 Years as Man and Has Two Wives

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: McGlone Gibson, Idah
    Date: May 12, 1914
    Topics: Being in love, Courts, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, FtMs, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Cora Anderson, Marie White, Ralph Kerwinieo
  75. Amazing Double Life of Girl Who Lived for Years as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: McGlone Gibson, Idah
    Date: May 13, 1914
    Topics: Arrests, Bellhops, Clothing, Courts, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, FtMs, Labour, Marriage, Masculinities, Native americans, Passing (Gender), Racism, Sexism
    Subject: Cora Anderson, Dorothy Klenowski, Marie White, Ralph Kerwinieo
    Description: The Day Book (Chicago, IL)
  76. Thirteen Years a Girl-Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 13, 1914
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Cora Anderson, Dorothy Klenowski, Mary White, Ralph Kerwinieo
    Description: The Ogden Standard (Ogden City, UT)
  77. Posed as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 4, 1915
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Educators, FtMs, Marriage, Masculinities
    Subject: Eugene de Forest, May Bradley
  78. Why Wearing Skirts Makes a Man Effeminate

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Lough, James E.
    Date: Jan. 9, 1916
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Masculinities, Psychology, Students, Theatre
    Subject: Brown Rolston, Frederick S. Jones, James E. Lough, Leroy K. Howe
  79. Seattle Man-Woman Bares "His" Soul

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 7, 1916
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, FtMs, Gender role, Labour, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Smoking
    Subject: Margaret Hart, Robert Gaffney
  80. Masculine Women! Feminine Men!

     
    Collection: Sheet Music
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1925
    Topics: Femininities, Masculinities, Music, Musicians
    Subject: May Beatty
  81. Truck Driver Becomes "Perfect Lady"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 23, 1927
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressers, Drag queens, Masculinities, Wigs
    Subject: Lionel Mike Ames
  82. 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...
  83. Women's Clothes Bring $20 Fines

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 22, 1930
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Female impersonators, Femininities, Law, Masculinities, Police, Social norms
    Subject: Albert Cushman, Wilbur Guyette
  84. Carrying the Torch

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: The Flying Cavalier
    Date: Mar. 4, 1933
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Masculinities
    Subject: Annual Masquerade and Civic Ball of Hamilton Lodge, Hamilton Lodge, The Fairies Ball
  85. Meet The Girl Who Became A Man (1937)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: 1937
    Topics: FtMs, Gender identity, Masculinities, Transgender people
    Subject: Peter Alexander
    Description: Peter Alexander, interviewed in Sydney, born and brought up as Mavis Higgins in New Zealand, speaks of his sex change from female to male. He discusses the aspects of his personality when younger w...
  86. N.Y. Couple Joyous Son Now Daughter

     
    Collection: Christine Jorgensen Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Boston American
    Date: Dec. 1, 1952
    Topics: Army, FtMs, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Masculinities, MtFs, Parents of transgender people, Trans women, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, George W. Jorgensen
  87. De Choisy . . . Prince of Transvestites

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Sexology Magazine, Troncoso, Héctor Uribe
    Date: Aug. 1953
    Topics: Crossdressers, Femininities, Fiction, Literature, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: François-Timoléon de Choisy
  88. Now His Daughter, Says Ex-GI's Dad

     
    Collection: Charlotte McLeod Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: International News Service
    Date: Feb. 25, 1954
    Topics: Family members, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Masculinities, MtFs
    Subject: Charles McLeod, Charlotte McLeod, Christine Jorgensen
  89. I Changed My Sex

     
    Collection: Charlotte McLeod Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: McLeod, Charlotte, Mr. Magazine
    Date: circa 1956
    Topics: Army, Discrimination, Femininities, Hormone therapy, Internalized homophobia, Masculinities, MtFs, Physicians, Transsexual people
    Subject: Charlotte McLeod
  90. Venus Castina: Famous Female Impersonators: Celestial and Human (Facsimile Edition)

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Bulliet, Clarence Joseph
    Date: 1956
    Topics: Amazons, Bible, Christianity, Circumcision, Crossdressers, Drag, Drag queens, Eroticism, Femininities, History, Homophobia, Judaism, Masculinities, Music, Mythology, Passing (Gender), Poets, Psychology, Sexuality, Sportspersons, Theatre, Transphobia, Visual arts
    Subject: Abbé de Choisy, Antoine Francois Derues, Bernard S. Talmey, Farinelli, Freud, Girolamo Crescentini, Havelock Ellis, Julian Eltinge, Julius Caesar, King Charles II, Leonardo da Vinci, Memories of the Kaiser's Court, Michelangelo, Oscar Wilde, Penal Code of 1889, Queen Elizabeth I, Raphael de la Chapelle, Secret Life of the Kaiser, Shakespeare, The Dark Ages, Witches' Sabbath, World War I
    Description: Contents: At the shrine of Venus Castina --The hero in woman's dress -- Achilles. Hercules, Samson -- The gods in fine laces -- Love of the philosophers -- Orgy of the Caesars -- Versatility of Sat...
  91. Sex Change Girl Accepted By Army

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Jan. 29, 1958
    Topics: Acceptance, Army, Classism, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Masculinities, Social classes, Underclass
    Subject: Marijan Djolan
  92. Japanese Athlete Aims at New Title After Sex Change

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: International News Service
    Date: Apr. 16, 1958
    Topics: FtMs, Legal status, Masculinities, Sports, Track and field, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Toshio Lanbongi
  93. Sex-Change Flier in News

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press
    Date: Oct. 13, 1958
    Topics: Air force, Gender role, Masculinities, Military, MtFs, Travel
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  94. Homosexuals Without Masks

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Horvath, Alice
    Date: Nov. 1958
    Topics: Butch-femme relationships, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay men, Homophobia, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, Masculinities
  95. Editorial (2/1/1959)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Hunter, Alison
    Date: Feb. 1, 1959
    Topics: Androgyny, Biology, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender role, Hormones, Masculinities, Physical characteristics
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Havelock Ellis
  96. A Little of My Life

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Messetti, Vivian
    Date: Mar. 1, 1959
    Topics: Circus, Femininities, Intersex, Masculinities, Neugebauer family
    Subject: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vivian Messetti
  97. Toward Understanding

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Baker, Blanche M.
    Date: Aug. 1, 1959
    Topics: Essentialism, Femininities, Gender, Genetics, Homosexuality, Intersex people, Masculinities, Surgery
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Gregor Mendel
  98. An Introduction to the Subject of Transvestism or Femmiphilia (cross dressing)

     
    Collection: Informational and Event Brochures
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Transvestia Magazine
    Date: circa 1960
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Femininities, Homosexuality, Masculinities, Tolerance
  99. Now I'm Getting Proposals

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Turtle, Georgina
    Date: Jul. 24, 1960
    Topics: Clothing, Depression, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender role, Marriage, Masculinities, MtFs, Navy, Verbal abuse
    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)
  100. Female Impersonators on Parade: Vol. 3

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Nutrix Co.
    Date: 1961
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressers, Dance, Drag, Femininities, Masculinities, Night life, Photography, Plays, Theatre
    Subject: Coccinelle, Madame Arthur, Madame Arthur Night Club
    Description: This publication includes photographs of famous drag performers and stories about their personal and professional lives, as well as descriptions of films with well-known actors who have dressed in ...