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  1. Billie Ert's Wedding

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1972
    Topics: Drag queens, Gender identity, Same-sex marriage
    Subject: Billie Ert
    Description: An image of Billie Ert at his wedding on October 5, 1972. The wedding was the first same-sex wedding in Texas but was later voided by the Texas Attorney General. For most of his life, Ert identifie...

  2. Candy Darling and Andy Warhol at movie premiere (1)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Beaton, Cecil
    Date: 1969
    Topics: LGBTQ+ actors, Trans women
    Subject: Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, Midnight Cowboy
    Description: Candy Darling and Andy Warhol at the premiere of "Midnight Cowboy" in 1969 at the Manhattan Theatre.

  3. Candy Darling and Andy Warhol at movie premiere (2)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Beaton, Cecil
    Date: 1969
    Topics: LGBTQ+ actors, Trans women
    Subject: Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, Midnight Cowboy
    Description: Candy Darling and Andy Warhol at the premiere of "Midnight Cowboy" in 1969 at the Manhattan Theatre.

  4. Candy Darling on Her Deathbed (1974)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Hujar, Peter
    Date: 1974
    Topics: Actors, MtFs, Photographic models, Transgender people
    Subject: Candy Darling

  5. Criss Noel

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1966 to 1969
    Topics: Dancers, Drag, Entertainers, Strippers
    Subject: Criss Noel, Jewel Box Revue
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  6. David Schneider at a Halloween Ball (1964)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 1964
    Topics: Costume, Drag, Entertainers, Hairdressers, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture)
    Subject: David Schneider
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  7. Dawn Pepita Hall at Her Dressing Table (November 22, 1968)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 22, 1968
    Topics: Transgender people, Transsexual people, Women biographers, Writers
    Subject: Dawn Pepita Hall

  8. Dawn Pepita Hall in New York Hotel Room (November 24, 1968)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 24, 1968
    Topics: Transgender people, Transsexual people, Women biographers, Writers
    Subject: Dawn Pepita Hall

  9. Drag Queen and Man Sitting at a Table (December 1964)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1964
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Parties
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  10. Drag Queen at The Colony (November 1968)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 1968
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Evening gowns, Parties
    Subject: The Colony
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  11. Eve Golden in Fried-Egg Hat, New York CIty (1980)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1980 to 1990
    Topics: Actors, Jews, Journalists, MtFs, Transsexual people, Writers
    Subject: Eve Golden
    Description: Eve Golden posing in fried-egg hat designed by friend Keith Greene.

  12. Four Drag Queens Outside The Colony (1959)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1959
    Topics: Dance, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Evening gowns
    Subject: The Colony
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  13. G.G. Allen at Loews State Theatre (1958)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1958
    Topics: Drag, Drag shows, Entertainers, Theatre
    Subject: G.G. Allen, Loews State Theatre
    Description: "LM45285" appears written in the bottom left corner of photograph.

  14. G.G. Allen Posing at Kansas City Jewel Box Revue with Others (1959)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1959
    Topics: Drag queens, Drag shows
    Subject: G.G. Allen, Jewel Box Revue

  15. Joanna Clark in Her Kitchen

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Zanger, Alan
    Date: Aug. 19, 1980
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Navy, Transsexual people
    Subject: Joanna Clark, Sister Mary Elizabeth
    Description: Joanna Michelle Clark (also known as Sister Mary Elizabeth), 42, is photographed standing in the kitchen of her San Juan Capistrano home.

  16. Leg Check

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Douglas, Bob
    Date: circa 1955
    Topics: Post-operative, Striptease, Trans women
    Subject: Cayon, Elaine, Club Oasis, Denmark, Rees, Tamara
    Description: Photo from Jet Magazine depicting Tamara Rees comparing her legs with those of Elaine Cayon. They are backstage at Los Angeles night club Club Oasis.

  17. Lenette Lee and Lauraine Lee at Orpheum Theatre (1970)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Cinemas, MtFs, Siblings, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Lauraine Lee, Lenette Lee, Orpheum Theater
    Description: The "Lee Sisters" posing under the marquee of the Orpheum Theater in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. Of special note is the movie which was featured, "The Christine Jorgensen Story."

  18. National Variety Artists Exotic Carnival and Ball Police Raid (1)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 26, 1962
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, Crossdressers, Police raids, Transgender people
    Subject: Manhattan Center
    Description: An image capturing an event where 44 cross-dressed people, some of whom were transgender, were arrested for "indecent exposure" and "masquerading" as a result of a police raid at the National Varie...

  19. National Variety Artists Exotic Carnival and Ball Police Raid (2)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 26, 1962
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, Crossdressers, Police raids, Transgender people
    Description: An image capturing an event where 44 cross-dressed people, some of whom were transgender, were arrested for "indecent exposure" and "masquerading" as a result of a police raid at the National Varie...

  20. Newspaper Clipping of Dawn Langley Hall and John Paul Simmons' Wedding

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 23, 1969
    Topics: Cross-cultural relationships, Interracial marriage, Marriage, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Weddings, Women biographers, Writers
    Subject: Dawn Langley Hall, John Paul Simmons
    Description: The follow text appears below the photograph: '(CF1)CHARLESTON,S.C.,Jan.23--BRIDE--Dawn Langley Hall, whose sex was changed from male to female by surgery, places a ring on the hand of her husba...

  21. Renée Richards Interview at the South Orange Country Club, New Jersey (August 21, 1976)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 21, 1976
    Topics: MtFs, Sports, Sportspersons, Tennis, Transsexual people
    Subject: Renée Richards

  22. Robbie Ross (1960)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1960
    Topics: Drag queens, Entertainers, Female impersonators
    Subject: G.G. Allen, Jewel Box Revue, Robbie Ross
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  23. Sir Lady Java with Redd Foxx

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 21, 1967
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Civil rights, Demonstrations, Ethnic groups, LGBTQ+ people of color, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transgender rights
    Subject: Redd Foxx, Redd Foxx Club, Sir Lady Java
    Description: This photograph displays Sir Lady Java and Redd Foxx standing in front of other protestors, holding a sign which reads, "Java vs. Right to Work" in front of the Redd Foxx club.

  24. Skip Arnold with Esther Newton (1966)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1966
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Entertainers, Writers
    Subject: Esther Newton, Skip Arnold
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  25. Tamara Rees Backstage at Los Angeles' Club Oasis with Elaine Cayon (November 10, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Douglas, Bob
    Date: Nov. 10, 1955
    Topics: Dancers, MtFs, Strippers, Transsexual people
    Subject: Club Oasis, Elaine Cayon, Tamara Rees
    Description: The following text appears at the bottom of the object: "Leg Check: Embarked on a career as a night club strip teaser after undergoing a sex transformation operation in Denmark, an ex-GI billed...

  26. Tamara Rees Poses on Burlesque Stage with Husband, J.E. Courtland, III (July 29, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 29, 1955
    Topics: MtFs, Partners of transgender people, Theater, Transsexual people
    Subject: J.E. Courtland, Tamara Rees
    Description: The following text appears at the bottom of the object: "WILL LECTURE- Tamara Rees, paratrooper turned 'woman' by sex surgery, poses on the stage of a burlesque theater in Los Angeles with her ...

  27. Tamara Rees Side-By-Side

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1954
    Topics: LGBTQ+ veterans, Post-operative, Trans women
    Subject: Netherlands, Rees, Tamara, World War II
    Description: A comparison between a photo of Tamara Rees following her operation in the Netherlands with her military photo from World War II.

  28. Tamara Rees Vacuuming at Home (July 28, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press International
    Date: Jul. 28, 1955
    Topics: LGBTQ+ newspapers, Marriage, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: J.E. Courtland, Robert Egan Rees, Tamara Edel Rees
    Description: Along the side of the photo appears the following text, on a separate sheet of paper: "BCP3-7/28-SACRAMENTO: Tamara Edel Rees Sweeps clean and starts life anew. She claims she was transformed fr...

  29. Terri Williams' Identification (1974)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Pengad Inc.
    Date: 1974
    Topics: MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Terri Williams
    Description: This is a close up of Terri A. Williams' State ID from Denver, Colorado

  30. Two Drag Queens Kneeling on the Dance Floor (December 1964)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1964
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Parties
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  31. Unknown Drag Queen at Drag Ball (1958)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1958
    Topics: Dance, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Evening gowns, Parties
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.