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  1. A Seated Performer Poses for a Photograph

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan
    Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: A seated performer poses in a two-piece dress. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen.
  2. A Service in Memory of Marsha P. Johnson

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ memorials, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is an order of service sheet for a memorial held for Marsha P. Johnson in Hoboken, New Jersey. This sheet shows the order of service activities including the opening prayer, bible reading...
  3. A Sex Change in the Strand

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Green, James
    Date: Jan. 15, 1980
    Topics: Actors, Humour, Plays, Pornography, Theatre
    Subject: Michael Crawford, No Sex
    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)
  4. A shoeshine boy cleans the boots of a man in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1905.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1905
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: The boy wears a registration number on his sleeve. In the background, a painted backdrop showing a city street. A photographic comic card produced by the firm of Bamforth, circa 1905. This genre of...
  5. A Singular Case and A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 16, 1836
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Marriage, Physicians, Prisoners, Secrecy
    Subject: George Wilson, James Walker, Jane Walker
  6. 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
  7. A soldier who ecaped from the Turks dressed as a woman; advertising the military magazine "The Wide World". Photographic postcard, ca. 1918.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1918
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Postcard reproduction of a cover of 'Wide World Magazine' (published London 1898-1965) showing a soldier in drag, with him in military uniform inset, with text alluding to how the soldier "escaped ...
  8. A Sorry Plight

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 6, 1883
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Marriage, Passing (Gender), Pregnancy
    Subject: Frank Dubois, Gertrude Fuller, S. J. Hudson
    Description: Daily Evening Bulletin (Marysville, KY)
  9. A Story to Remember

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ memorials, LGBTQ+ people who use substances, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: This item is an essay with edits written by Randy Wicker about the evolution of his relationship with Sylvia Rivera.
  10. A Strange Career: The Remarkable Dual Existence of a Former Belle of Sandusky, O.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: San Francisco Dispatch
    Date: Jan. 19, 1889
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, Marriage
    Subject: Charley Parkhurst, Charlotte Parkhurst, Frank Parkhurst, Peter Elehebarne
  11. A Strange Life History

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 8, 1879
    Topics: Arrests, Books, Crossdressing, Hunting, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: George Slater, Joseph Israel Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell Slater, Marie Louise Perry Wilson, Mary Slater
    Description: The Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis, IN)
  12. A Strange Life History: The Death of a Modern Diana-Lucy Slater's Thrilling Adventures

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The New York Times
    Date: Oct. 8, 1879
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Clothing, Health, Hunting, Marriage, Social classes
    Subject: Female Hunter of Long Eddy, George Slater, Joseph Israel Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell Slater, Marie Louise Perry Wilson
  13. A Strange Metamorphosis

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 28, 1882
    Topics: FtMs, Marriage, Separation, Transgender people
    Subject: Dubuque Times, E. W. Burnham, Major Powell, Tribune
  14. A Streetcar Named Desire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Francis, Miller
    Date: Dec. 18, 1972
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Feminism, Film, Homosexuality, Misogyny, Reviews, Sexual revolution
    Subject: A Streetcar Named Desire, Oscar Wilde, Salome, Tennessee Williams
  15. A Transvestite Tangles Tongues: An Interview with Sandy Day

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: GAY Magazine
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Female impersonators, Gender affirming surgery, LGBTQ+ theater, QTPOC, Transfemininity
    Subject: Sandy Day
    Description: "A Transvestite Tangles Tongues: An Interview with Sandy Day" from GAY Magazine Vol. 4 No. 06. There is an interview with performer Sandy Day about her gender affirming procedures, plan to get bott...