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  1. Mountain Charley

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Charley, Mountain
    Date: 1861
    Topics: Crossdressing, Frontier and pioneer life, Gender expression, Stealth (Transgender)
    Description: The autobiography of E. J. Guerin, AKA Mountain Charley, charting their thirteen years of life living as a man. The memoir follows Guerin's life as a young mother and wife, which is ruptured by the...

  2. Leg Check

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Douglas, Bob
    Date: circa 1955
    Topics: Post-operative, Striptease, Trans women
    Subject: Cayon, Elaine, Club Oasis, Denmark, Rees, Tamara
    Description: Photo from Jet Magazine depicting Tamara Rees comparing her legs with those of Elaine Cayon. They are backstage at Los Angeles night club Club Oasis.

  3. Sir Lady Java -- The Lady is a Man

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1970
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Discos, Entertainers, Exotic dancers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows, Transgender people
    Subject: Memory Lane Supper Club, Sir Lady Java

  4. Black Play Boy Presents Sir Lady Java and Rose Brothers

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 15, 1983 to Apr. 16, 1983
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Discos, Entertainers, Exotic dancers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows, Transgender people
    Subject: Black Playboy, Rose Brothers, Sir Lady Java

  5. Joshua's Reed Presents Sir Lady Java Revue

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1981
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Discos, Entertainers, Exotic dancers, Female impersonators, Transgender people
    Subject: Gentelmen's Quarterly, Joshua's Reed, Sir Lady Java

  6. Oasis Cocktail Lounge proudly presents... Sir Lady Java Review

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 31, 1971
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Discos, Entertainers, Exotic dancers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows, Transgender people
    Subject: Oasis Cocktail Lounge, Sir Lady Java

  7. One Night Only Sir Lady Java

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Discos, Entertainers, Exotic dancers, Female impersonators, Transgender people
    Subject: Roy's Twenty Grand West, Sir Lady Java

  8. Joe's Nairobi Lounge Presents Sir Lady Java

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 31, 1970
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Discos, Entertainers, Exotic dancers, Female impersonators, Theatre shows, Transgender people
    Subject: Joe's Nairobi Lounge, Shirley Butler, Sir Lady Java

  9. Sir Lady Java Proudly Presents The Pre Halloween Ball of the Year

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 1969
    Topics: Drag balls, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture)
    Subject: Jimmy Thompon, Sam Green, Sir Lady Java, The Tempting Harts

  10. Now at The Hustlers

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 9, 1967
    Topics: Activists, Entertainers, Exotic dancers, Female impersonators, Transgender people
    Subject: Benny Curtis Show, Sepia, Sir Lady Java, The Hustlers (Club), Willie Bobo

  11. "Who is Sir Lady Java?"

     
    Collection: Informational and Event Brochures
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1967 to circa 1970
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Discrimination, Entertainers, Exotic dancers, LGBTQ+ people of color, Physical characteristics, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transphobia
    Subject: Archille P. DeVille, Sir Lady Java
    Description: Pages 2-4 can be accessed with the relation links

  12. Joanna Clark in Her Kitchen

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Zanger, Alan
    Date: Aug. 19, 1980
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Navy, Transsexual people
    Subject: Joanna Clark, Sister Mary Elizabeth
    Description: Joanna Michelle Clark (also known as Sister Mary Elizabeth), 42, is photographed standing in the kitchen of her San Juan Capistrano home.

  13. Sir Lady Java with Redd Foxx

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 21, 1967
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Civil rights, Demonstrations, Ethnic groups, LGBTQ+ people of color, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transgender rights
    Subject: Redd Foxx, Redd Foxx Club, Sir Lady Java
    Description: This photograph displays Sir Lady Java and Redd Foxx standing in front of other protestors, holding a sign which reads, "Java vs. Right to Work" in front of the Redd Foxx club.

  14. 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...

  15. 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 ...

  16. 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...

  17. Transsexual Accepts Suit Settlement

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The San Diego Union
    Date: Mar. 2, 1979
    Topics: Augmentation mammaplasty, Courts, Fraud, Gender realignment surgery, Transsexual people
    Subject: Duncan Barr, James Spence, John Brown, Julie Phillips, Kathleen Unger, Melin Belli, William Mullins

  18. Arrest Cancels Police Speakers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Date: Oct. 11, 1972
    Topics: Arrests, Gay community, Police, Transsexual people
    Subject: Charles N. Cooke, Dennis Crain, Transsexual Counseling League

  19. Bridge Revealed As Former GI

     
    Collection: Charlotte McLeod Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The San Diego Union-Tribune
    Date: Nov. 14, 1959
    Topics: Army, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, MtFs
    Subject: Charlotte McLeod, Ralph H. Heidal

  20. Meanwhile, Back at the Raunch

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Segraves, John
    Date: Jul. 3, 1970
    Topics: Film, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Reviews, Theatre
    Subject: John Huston, Mae West, Myra Breckinridge, Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Robert Fryer

  21. 'Myra' principals speak in venom

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Haber, Joyce
    Date: Jun. 30, 1970
    Topics: Film, FtMs, MtFs
    Subject: Mae West, Myra Breckinridge, Raquel Welch

  22. 'X-Rated' Review Given of a Movie

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Thomas, Bob
    Date: Dec. 5, 1969
    Topics: Actors, Film, Pornography, Reviews
    Subject: Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, Raquel Welch

  23. Myra in Hollywood

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Advocate
    Date: Nov. 16, 1969
    Topics: Businesses, Film, Gender realignment surgery, Reviews
    Subject: Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, Raquel Welch

  24. Author Lands Role in 'Myra'

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Republican
    Date: Sep. 6, 1969
    Topics: Film, Theatre, Transgender people
    Subject: Gore Vidal, John Huston, Mae West, Myra Breckinridge, Raquel Welch

  25. Raquel Welch Chosen for 'Myra'

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Jul. 18, 1969
    Topics: Film, Gender realignment surgery, Theatre
    Subject: Myra Breckinridge, Raquel Welch