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  1. Kunkel's Opera Troupe Listing

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Cleveland Leader
    Date: Mar. 17, 1855
    Topics: Dance, Dancers, Female impersonators, Minstrel shows, Theatre, Theatre groups
    Subject: T.L. Floyd
  2. A Woman Married to a Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: May 7, 1856
    Topics: Crossdressing, Marriage, Secrecy
  3. Two men in drag sitting in conversation. Photograph, 1855/1860.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1855 to 1860?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: Victorian album.
  4. 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
  5. Girl-Boys

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 4, 1858
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, Gender, International relations
  6. 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
  7. "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
  8. "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
  9. A Singular Character

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1855 to 1865
    Topics: Crossdressing, Secrecy, Soldiers
    Subject: Hannah Snell
  10. An Extraordinary Case of a Girl Concealing Her Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 14, 1860
    Topics: Crimes, Crossdressing, Prisoners, Secrecy, Suicide
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide.
  11. An Extraordinary Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 25, 1860
    Topics: Crossdressing, FtMs, Prisoners, Suicide
    Subject: Augustine Baudoin, Augustus Baudoin
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide.
  12. How to Determine Doubtful Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: The London Lancet
    Date: Feb. 20, 1860
    Topics: Crossdressers, Gender identity, Marriage, Medical examinations, Psychology, Suicide
    Subject: Harry Stokes
  13. Baltimore

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 12, 1860
    Topics: Crossdressing, Equestrian sports, Government, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Louis XVI, Md'lle Zoyara, Pierre Beaumarchais
    Description: The Daily Exchange (Baltimore, MD)
  14. 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)
  15. Chevalier D'Eon

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Once a Week
    Date: 1861
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: King George III, Louis XV, Queen Charlotte
  16. 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...
  17. A man in drag holding a broom. Photograph, 1862.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1862
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: Victorian album.
  18. An man in drag posing side-on. Photograph, 1862.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1862
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: Victorian album.
  19. The Army and the Negros

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: National Anti-Slavery Standard
    Date: 1862
    Topics: African American soldiers, Clothing, Crossdressing, Slavery, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
    Description: A newspaper segment examining the role of Black people in the Union Army during the Civil War that includes an excerpt from a New York Times article in which the author describes people seeking ref...
  20. The Cairo News

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 2, 1863
    Topics: Crossdressing, FtMs, Military, Soldiers, Suicide
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide. Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye (Burlington, IA)
  21. A Colored Fille du Regiment

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 11, 1863
    Topics: Crossdressing, FtMs, Military, Soldiers
    Description: Cleveland Morning Leader (Cleveland, OH)
  22. William Lingard Sheet Music

     
    Collection: Sheet Music
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: W. A. Pond & Co.
    Date: 1860 to circa 1869
    Topics: Composers, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Music, Musicians, Photographs, Sheet music
    Subject: William Lingard
  23. Dance to the [slur] - Saukie

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Catlin, George
    Date: 1861 to 1869
    Topics: BIPOC, Colonialism, Gender minorities, Native americans, Painting, Sauk Indians, Two-Spirit people
    Description: Note the term in the title is censored because it is a historical slur against Native American people who now commonly identify as "Two Spirit."
  24. Sue Monday, The Guerrilla Spy

     
    Collection: Dime Novels
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Haco, Dion
    Date: 1865
    Topics: Border States (U.S. Civil War), Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Espionage, Gender bending, Southern States--History--1865-1877, Torture, Treason, Unionists (United States Civil War)
  25. A Female Soldier

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 11, 1865
    Topics: Crossdressing, Secrecy, Soldiers
    Subject: Hannah Snell
  26. 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
  27. Bridgeport Items: Romance

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Duke University
    Creator: Jackson County News
    Date: Jun. 10, 1865
    Topics: Crossdressing, Military, Soldiers
    Subject: 7th Ohio Cavalry, Ida Bruce
    Description: This item can be found on page 3 of the newspaper
  28. The Chimney Corner

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Leslie, Frank
    Date: 1866
    Topics: Crossdressing, French revolution, Politics, Poverty, Secrecy
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon
  29. 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)
  30. The Memphis Massacre

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 28, 1866
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Police harassment, Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Lucy Hunt, Lucy Smith
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to racist language and sexual assault.
  31. The Congressional Committee and the Memphis Riots

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Plymouth Weekly Democrat
    Date: Aug. 16, 1866
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women, Transgender disabled people
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: An article initially published in The Memphis Daily Avalanche on the Congressional Committee created for the 1866 Memphis Riots. The clipping identifies and briefly discusses Frances Thompson as on...
  32. The Memphis Riots

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 21, 1866
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  33. The Man-Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Wilkes, George
    Date: Sep. 22, 1866
    Topics: Appearance, Discrimination, Gender identity
  34. 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
  35. Man-Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 1867
    Topics: Appearance, Gender, Life stories, Marriage, Physicians, Secrecy, Surgery
  36. A Man-Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 25, 1868
    Topics: Families, Gender identity, Marriage, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Edgar Burnham
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. A Cleveland Girl in Male Attire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 30, 1869
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Courts, Crossdressers, Police officers
    Subject: Mary Goldsborough
  40. Life and Examination of the Would-Be Ladies

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1870
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing
    Subject: Frederick William Park, Thomas Ernest Boulton
  41. The Celebrated Rentz Santley Novelty Company

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Peabody Essex Museum
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1870
    Topics: Burlesque (Theater), Female impersonators, Theater, Vaudeville
    Subject: 4 Aesthetic Four 4, Alice Daily, Alice Smith, Andy and Annie Hughes, Annie Boyd, Billy Buckley, Blanch Moncrief, Bruno Kennicott, Don Jose, Dutch Daly, Edgar Edgerton, Edith Sinclair, Emma Alfredo, Emma Wilson, Esther Vaughan, Fannie Florence, Fred Wilson, Georgia Lester, Harry Morris, Harry Woodson, Kate Gresham, Laura Bennett, Lillie Ashford, Lizzie Paine, Louise Giroux, Lulu Mortimer, M. B. Leavitt, Mechanic's Hall, Millie Ellsworth, Rentz Santley, Teddy Raynor, The Masher's Quadrille, The Rentz Santley Novelty Company, The Spanish Dude, Topsy Robins, Victoria North, W.M. Skuse
  42. The Life and Examination of Boulton and Park

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1870
    Topics: Crossdressing
    Subject: Frederick William Park, Thomas Ernest Boulton
  43. 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.)
  44. Memphis Appeal

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 18, 1870
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Clipping published in the Memphis Daily Appeal
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. 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.)
  48. The Men in Petticoats in London

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 10, 1870
    Topics: Clothing, Crimes, Crossdressing, Femininities, Secrecy
  49. England.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: London Telegraph, Cork Reporter
    Date: Jun. 22, 1870
    Topics: Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Prejudices
    Subject: Arthur Clinton, Ernest Boulton, Frederick William Park, Montagu Williams, The London Globe
  50. British "Masquerading."

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: London Globe
    Date: Jun. 23, 1870
    Topics: Bail, Courts, Indictments, Prisoners
    Subject: Ernest Boulton, Justice Blackburn, Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton, Sergeant Ballantine, Sergeant Perry, William Park
  51. The Boulton Masquerade

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Detroit Advertiser and Tribune
    Date: Jun. 30, 1870
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Arthur Clinton, Park and Boulton
  52. 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
  53. 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
  54. 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
  55. 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)
  56. A black chevalier...

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Evening Star
    Date: Jul. 28, 1870
    Topics: Black people, Crossdressing
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Lizzie
    Description: Evening Star (Washington, DC)
  57. A Black Chevalier D'Eon

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 5, 1870
    Topics: Black people, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender identity
    Subject: Dick Montgomery
  58. 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)
  59. The Morality of Masquerading

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Watts, James
    Date: Oct. 15, 1870
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Gender
  60. 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
  61. Ernest Boulton in drag. Photograph by London Stereoscopic Company, ca. 1871.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1871
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of The James Gardiner Collection. Victorian album.
  62. Miscellany

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1871
    Topics: Femininities, Gender role, Masculinities, Upbringing
  63. 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.)
  64. 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
  65. About a Man-Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 5, 1871
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, Gender dysphoria, Gender role
    Subject: Samuel Buck
  66. NEW YORK, October 17th.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 19, 1872
    Topics: LGBTQ+ actors, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Performance art
    Subject: Ella Wesner, Everret House, Josie Mansfield
    Description: A clipping from "Marysville Daily Appeal" titled: "NEW YORK, October 17th," discussing Ella Wesner and Josie Mansfield's trip to Europe. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  67. RUMORED ELOPEMENT OF A HOTEL-KEEPER WITH ELLA WESNER.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 18, 1872
    Topics: LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Performance art
    Subject: Ella Wesner, Josie Mansfield
    Description: A clipping from "Chicago Tribune" titled: "RUMORED ELOPEMENT OF A HOTEL-KEEPER WITH ELLA WESNER," discussing the relationships of Ella Wesner. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  68. Matinee Christmas Day

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 18, 1872
    Topics: Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Neil Burgess
  69. The Vodoo Profession

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 19, 1873
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Voodoo
    Description: An article in the Public Ledger that talks about the case of the State vs. Frances Thompson involving Voodoo.
  70. Plymouth County News

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 31, 1873
    Topics: Clothing, Gender identity, Institutional care facilities, LGBTQ+ lovers, LGBTQ+ relationships, Travel
  71. A man in drag resting against a chair. Photograph, 187-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1870 to 1879?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: Victorian album.
  72. 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
  73. City Summary

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 21, 1874
    Topics: Crossdressing, Femininities, Masculinities, Theatre
  74. 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
  75. San Francisco Minstrels!

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Peabody Essex Museum
    Creator:
    Date: May 12, 1874
    Topics: Female impersonators, Minstrel shows, Theater
    Subject: A. Smidt, Beaumont Read, Billy Birch, Birch, Wambold, and Backus' San Francisco Minstrels, C. Henry, Charley Backus, D. S. Wambold, E. Kirwan, J. Wills, Johnson & Powers, Joseph Norrie, Mechanics Hall, S. Watts, T. A. E. Richardson, T. P. Jones, The Great Ricardo, W. Blakeney, W. S. Mullaly, W. Schwab
    Description: Advertisement for event featuring minstrel and female impersonation act The Great Ricardo
  76. Theatre Comique: Ernest Byne

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 29, 1874
    Topics: Actors, Female impersonators, Femininities, Theatre
    Subject: Ernest Byne, Gerard Byne, Josh Hart
    Description: The New York Herald (New York, New York)
  77. ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 15, 1874
    Topics: LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Performance art
    Subject: Academy of Music, Ella Wesner
    Description: A clipping from "The Chicago Daily Tribune" titled: "ACADEMY OF MUSIC," discussing Ella Wesner's performance at the Academy of Music. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  78. Interviewing Dr. Mary Walker

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1875
    Topics: Clothing, Gender identity
    Subject: Mary Walker
  79. Amusements

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 12, 1875
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Performing arts, Physical characteristics, Role behavior
    Subject: Ernest Byne, Swiss Bell Ringers
    Description: The Daily Gazette (Wilmington, DE)
  80. Which? A Man in Woman's Dress

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 1, 1875
    Topics: Clothing, Courts, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Government, Law, Monarchy, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee d'Eon de Beaumont, Chevalier D'Eon, Horace Walpole, Louis XV, Milwaukee Sentinel
    Description: Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis, IN)
  81. An Old Story Revived

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The New York Times
    Date: Jul. 26, 1875
    Topics: Censorship, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Government, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Count de Guerchy, duc de Nivernois, Empress Elizabeth, James Barry, Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour, Prince de Conti, Queen Charlotte, Walpole
    Description: The Daily Argus (Rock Island, IL)
  82. A Woman-Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 5, 1875
    Topics: Crimes, Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Secrecy
  83. 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
  84. The Memphis Theater

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 26, 1875
    Topics: Actors, Female impersonators, Plays
    Subject: Ernest Byne, Milton Nobles
    Description: Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee)
  85. Both and Neither

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 26, 1875
    Topics: Appearance, Gender realignment surgery, Generative organs, Health sciences, Intersex, Physical characteristics
  86. Francis Thomas

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1876
    Topics: Black transgender people, Chain gangs, Police harassment, Trans women, Transgender victims of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Lucy Smith
    Description: Subtitle: The Vile and Villainous Negro, Who, for Twenty-Seven Years, Has Passed Himself off as a Woman-His Arrest. Article in The Daily Gazette about Frances Thompson's arrest that also details he...
  87. Political Points

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Patriot
    Date: 1876
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Elections, Race relations, Racism
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Ku Klux Klan, St. Louis Times
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to rape.
  88. The Woman in Battle: the adventures, exploits, and travels of Madame Loreta Juaneta Velasquez

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Duke University
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1876
    Topics: Military, Soldiers, Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Biography, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Female
    Subject: Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Loreta Juaneta Velasquez
    Description: Brochure advertising the publication of the book "The Woman in Battle" by Loreta Janeta Velazquez, who claims to have masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the Civil War. Includes highli...
  89. Mary Murdock Mason

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 27, 1876
    Topics: Clothing, Gender expression, Gender identity
    Subject: Mary Murdock Mason
    Description: A clipping from "The Brooklyn Daily Eagle" titled: "Mary Murdock Mason." Details Mary Murdock Mason's ideas on gender. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  90. Dramatic Doings

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 18, 1876
    Topics: Burlesque (Literature)
    Subject: Kenward Philip
  91. The Man Who Kissed Dr. Mary Walker

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: May 6, 1876
    Topics: Crossdressing, Harassment, Kissing
    Subject: Mary Walker
  92. The "Crutchy" Club

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 22, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  93. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 24, 1876
    Topics: Change of name, Marriage, Secrecy
    Subject: James Han
  94. A Mask Lifted

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 11, 1876
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  95. Arrest of a Notorious Character

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
    Date: Jul. 12, 1876
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  96. Thompson's Joke

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 12, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  97. Ledger Lines [3]

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 13, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Lucy Smith
    Description: Published in the newspaper The Public Ledger.
  98. Thompson

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Memphis Daily Appeal
    Date: Jul. 13, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Police harassment, Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: American Civil War, Frances Thompson, Lucy Smith
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  99. Frances Thompson

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 14, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Passing (Gender), Trans women, Transfemininity
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: An article in the Memphis Daily Appeal summarizing an interview with Frances Thompson.
  100. Ledger Lines [2]

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 14, 1876
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender disabled people
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to ableist language.