Digital Transgender Archive

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Scrapbooks and Albums

This collection contains a variety of scrapbooks and albums compiling materials related to drag, cross-dressing, and gender transition. The books are interesting not only for the historical images and texts they contain, but also for their artistic arrangement.

From Institution(s): Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive, E.H. Butler Library, Buffalo State, Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
 

Sheet Music

A unique collection of sheet music featuring male and female impersonators from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

From Institution(s): JD Doyle Archives, Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
 

Short Runs of Periodicals

This is a catch-all collection of periodicals that were published between the 1950s and the 1990s. Materials are placed in this collection when five or fewer full scans of a specific periodical are accessible. Though only a few issues of particular publications are often included, most had much longer runs that have not yet been digitized.

From Institution(s): Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Transgender Oral History Project, Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University, Transgender Archives, University of Victoria, The ArQuives, JD Doyle Archives, Independent Voices, Grupo Dignidade, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany, Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive, Digital Transgender Archive, Yale University Libraries, Princeton University Library
 

South Africa Media Coverage (via Gender Dynamix)

This collection contains five objects published from 1988-1996 in various South African media outlets including Femina Magazine, The Sunday Star, YOU Magazine, and Playboy Magazine South Africa. The articles and letters to the editor describe personal transgender experiences such as transitioning, societal and familial acceptance, sexuality, and gender identity. This collection was submitted by Liesl Theron from her work at Gender Dynamix.

From Institution(s): GALA Queer Archive
 

The Sweetheart Connection

The Sweetheart Connection was a newsletter for wives and partners of heterosexual crossdressers published by the Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self during the 1990s. Topics covered in these publications include the annual Spouses and Partners International Conference for Education (SPICE), personal experiences at support groups, and couples' marital issues.

From Institution(s): Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan