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  1. 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
  2. Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, on the condition of the Indians in the Indian Territory, and other reservations, etc. In two parts. Part I.

     
    Collection: Government Documents
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1886
    Topics: BIPOC, Indian agents, Indigenous LGBTQ+ people, Indigenous transgender people, Transgender people of color, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Finds-them-and-kills-them, Osh-Tisch
    Description: List of names for land lease on Crow Reservation. Includes Osh-Tisch, "Finds-them-and-kills-them."
  3. There is a Remarkable Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 14, 1886
    Topics: Army, Civil wars, Crimes, Crossdressing, Desertion, Military, Military, Soldiers
    Subject: Franklin Thompson, Sarah E. Edmonds, Sarah E. Seelye
    Description: Arizona Weekly Journal-Miner (Prescott, AZ)
  4. Mrs. S. E. Seelye

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 17, 1886
    Topics: Army, Crossdressing, Desertion, Military, Military, Passing (Gender), Soldiers
    Subject: Franklin Thompson, Sarah E. Seelye
    Description: The Grenada Sentinel (Grenada, MS)
  5. Not A Tenderfoot: A Female Jehu Who Passed for Thirty Years as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 11, 1886
    Topics: Appearance, Death and dying, Gold mines and mining, Passing (Gender), Postmasters, Transportation occupations
    Subject: Charley Parkhurst, Charlotte Parkhurst, Frederick M. Parkhurst, Lottie Parkhurst
  6. A Woman Soldier

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 13, 1886
    Topics: Crossdressing, Law, Passing (Gender), Retirement benefits, Soldiers, Veterans
    Subject: Company F. Second Regiment Michigan Infantry, Franklin Thompson, Joseph Allen, S. E. Seelye
    Description: Wessington Springs Herald (Wessington Springs, South Dakota)
  7. Owl Pharmacy

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 6, 1887
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Female impersonators, Minstrel shows
    Description: Article in The Abilene Reflector about "the best colored female impersonators in the business."
  8. A Rather Queer Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: The Galveston Daily News
    Date: Feb. 5, 1887
    Topics: Gender markers, Intersex people, LGBTQ+ death notices, Medical care
    Subject: Dr. H. P. Cooke, Dr. M. Singer, Dr. Wilkinson, Justice Spann, Mary Trust, Titie Luey, Titie Young, Walter James
  9. 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)
  10. Mr. or Miss?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: The Inter Ocean
    Date: Jun. 8, 1887
    Topics: Drag kings, Male impersonators, Opera, Weddings
    Subject: Annie Hindle, Annie Ryan, Belle Kinsman, Charles Hindle, E.H. Brooks
  11. I Play the Part

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1888
    Topics: Actors, Crossdressing, Male impersonators, Portrait prints, Stipple engraving, English, Theatre, Visual arts
    Subject: Constant Couple, George Farquhar, Margaret Woffinton, William Hogarth
    Description: Portrait, half-length, looking at the viewer, with her hand in her waistcoat; in the character of Sir Harry Wildair in Farquhar's Constant couple.
  12. Disguised her Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 28, 1888
    Topics: Assigned gender, Death and dying, Family members, Passing (Gender)
    Description: Daily Globe, St. Paul Minnesota.
  13. 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
  14. Neil Burgess (Amusements)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 7, 1888
    Topics: Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Neil Burgess, Vim
  15. A Comedy of Murder

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1889
    Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Asian people, Chinese People, Chinese Theatrical Company, Taka Wing, Two Unfortunate Maidens
    Description: Article published in The New York Herald about a performance by Taka Wing, a Chinese female impersonator.