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  1. A Crack Shot: The Story of the Female Hunter of Long Eddy

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 17, 1881
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Firearms, Hunting, Marriage, Occupations, Social classes, Trapping
    Subject: Female Hunter of Long Eddy, George W. Slater, Lucy Ann Lobdell
    Description: Butler Citizen (Butler, PA)
  2. A Curious Evening with Kenneth Marlow (January 17, 1971)

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1971
    Topics: Comedy, Crossdressing, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Musicals, Writers
    Subject: Kenneth Marlow, Mr. Madam
    Description: Object has "which have nothing to do with my act!" in blue ink, which we think to be written by Kenneth Marlow.
  3. "A Dark Conspiracy" in Chinese

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1889
    Topics: Chinese drama, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: A Dark Conspiracy, Asian people, Chinese People, Koong Ming, Swintien Lok Company, Taka Wing
    Description: This item is an article published in the New York Herald reporting on the performance of "A Dark Conspiracy" featuring Taka Wing, a female impersonator.
  4. A Dictionary of Gender Identity

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Bonnell, Charles
    Date: Sep. 20, 1975
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag kings, Drag queens, Eroticism, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, Medicalization, Passing (Gender), Scientific literature, Sex cinemas, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Gay Community News, The Queen's Vernacular
    Description: A short article in volume 3, issue 12 of Gay Community News, providing definitions for terms used by the gender noncomforming community in the 70s. Originally printed on page 17.
  5. A Dinner Party

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, Gatherings, Night life, Social activities clubs
    Subject: Ty Bennett
  6. A Diptych Portrait of Marie Høeg

     
    Collection: Berg and Høeg Photographs
    Institution: Preus Museum
    Creator: Høeg, Marie, Berg, Bolette
    Date: circa 1895 to circa 1903
    Topics: Clothing, Gender non-conforming people, Photography
    Subject: Bolette Berg, Marie Høeg
    Description: A diptych of Marie Høeg with contrasting expressions. On the left Marie is scowling and on the right Marie is smiling.
  7. A Diptych Portrait of Marie Høeg on a Swing

     
    Collection: Berg and Høeg Photographs
    Institution: Preus Museum
    Creator: Høeg, Marie, Berg, Bolette
    Date: circa 1895 to circa 1903
    Topics: Clothing, Gender non-conforming people, Pets, Photography
    Subject: Bolette Berg, Marie Høeg, Tuss
    Description: A diptych portrait of Marie Høeg; on the left Høeg is holding Tuss and softly smiling with a traditionally masculine hat on; on the right Høeg is pensively looking away from the camera.
  8. A Discovery

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Evening Star
    Date: Aug. 13, 1836
    Topics: Crossdressers, Gender role, LGBTQ+ relationships
    Subject: James Walker
  9. 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
  10. A drag? No, Hoffman's beautiful

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Harmsworth, Madeleine
    Date: May 1, 1983
    Topics: Actors, Drag, Film, Representation
    Subject: Charles Durning, Dorothy Michaels, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Michael Dorsey, Tootsie
    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)
  11. A drag pearly queen and her two kings pose for a group portrait. Photographic postcard, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: The pearly queens appear relaxed posing in front of a blank sheet. Possibly a World War I concert party group, but if so subject matter is unusual
  12. A enriquecedora viagem de Ruddy, da Zona de Belô ao brilho de Ipanema

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Grupo Dignidade
    Creator: Pinheiro, Alceste
    Date: Oct. 1980
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Hairdressers, Labelling, Poets, Transphobia
    Subject: Carnaval, Ruddy
  13. A Família Unida

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Grupo Dignidade
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 1979
    Topics: Comic strips, Coming out, Parents of transgender people, Transgender families, Transgender parents, Transsexual people
  14. A family, all members wearing grotesque masks, the father in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1910
    Topics: Female impersonators, Masks
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag.
  15. A Fatal Accident which Revealed a Mystery

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Evening Bulletin
    Date: Jun. 16, 1890
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, Sailors
    Subject: Hans Brandt
    Description: The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY)
  16. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 9, 1883
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Marriage, Painting, Passing (Gender), Separation
    Subject: Frank Dubois, Gertrude Fuller, H. L. Morrison, S.J. Hudson
    Description: Cooperstown Courier (Cooperstown, ND)
  17. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 12, 1883
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender segregation in labour, LGBTQ+ partners, Marriage, Smoking
    Subject: Frank Dubois, Gertrude Fuller, S. J. Hudson
    Description: Wood River Times (Hailey, Idaho)
  18. 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
  19. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 16, 1842
    Topics: Crimes, Law, Marriage
  20. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1829
    Topics: Death and dying, Marriage, Secrecy
  21. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 1836
    Topics: Appearance, Crimes, Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ lovers, Police officers, Secrecy
    Subject: James Walker
  22. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: May 19, 1838
    Topics: Crossdressers, Marriage
    Subject: Samuel M. Pollard
  23. 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
  24. A Female Impersonator: Man Disguised in Woman's Apparel Arrested at Austin

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 13, 1901
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Clothing, Female impersonators, Police, Social norms, Taboos
    Subject: Edgar Edwards
  25. A Female Impersonator Who Likes Being a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Klemesrud, Judy
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Clothing, Cosmetics, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Masculinities, Night life
    Subject: Lynne Carter