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  1. $500,000 for a Corset

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 28, 1915
    Topics: Actors, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Labour, Theatre
    Subject: Edward Kynaston, Julian Eltinge
  2. 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)
  3. An Actress at her Toilet, or, Miss Brazen Just Breecht

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 24, 1779
    Topics: Actors, Animals, Clothing, Crossdressing, Visual arts
    Description: The interior of a well-furnished dressing-room. A young woman stands in the centre, arms akimbo, putting on a pair of breeches and looking towards the mirror which stands on a dressing-table (right...
  4. April Ashley Receives a Congratulatory Kiss (March 3, 1970)

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press International
    Date: Mar. 3, 1970
    Topics: Actors, Entertainers, Law reports, digests, etc., Marital status, Marriage law, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: April Ashley
    Description: At the top of photograph appears the following text: "NXP/CLN030212-3/3/70-LONDON: April Ashley (L) receives a congratulatory kiss from a patron of the restaurant she opened in London's Chelsea d...
  5. April Ashley with Mother, Ada Jamieson, London (May 11, 1962)

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: May 11, 1962
    Topics: Actors, Entertainers, LGBTQ+ parents, MtFs, Parents of transgender people, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Ada Jamieson, April Ashley
  6. Female Mimics Vol. 1 No. 3

     
    Collection: Female Mimics
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Selbee Associates, Inc.
    Date: 1963
    Topics: Actors, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag kings, Drag queens, MtFs, Photographic models, Transgender culture, Transgender identity, Transgender people
    Subject: Art Students League Ball, Chez Moune, Patricia Ann Morgan, Pudgy Roberts, Rex Huntington, Terry Noel, Toby Marsh
    Description: On item cover: "The world's foremost female impersonators." ; Contents: How I changed my sex -- Steins and stags -- Terry the tantalizing -- A stitch in time -- The balls that made N.Y. flip -- Hap...
  7. 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.
  8. Look What Happened to Sweeney Tough Guy

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Insall, Roger
    Date: Dec. 20, 1981
    Topics: Actors, Clothing, Families, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, MtFs, Physicians, Transsexual people
    Subject: Jeremy Bean, Michelle Kent
  9. Man Posed As A Film Actress

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 4, 1969
    Topics: Actors, Arrests, Change of name, Crossdressing, Depression, Drag, Fraud, Identity, Imprisonment
    Subject: Angela Smith, Billie Whitelaw, Dennis Peter Bird
    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)
  10. Mr. Bannister in the Character of Miss Polly Peachum

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator: Sayers, James
    Date: 1781
    Topics: Actors, Crossdressing, Etching, Opera
    Subject: Charles Bannister, John Gay
  11. Scrub

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator: Sayers, James
    Date: Feb. 15, 1786
    Topics: Actors, Crossdressing, Etching, Male impersonators, Theatre
    Subject: George Farquhar, Mrs. Abington, The Beaux' Stratagem
    Description: "Mrs. Abington stands facing three quarters to the right dressed as Scrub in Farquhar's 'Beaux' Stratagem', with her hair in tightly curled ringlets (resembling the wig worn by Weston in the part)....
  12. Varsity Drag

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 12, 1983
    Topics: Actors, Drag, Plays
    Subject: Cambridge University, Cambridge University Footlights, Cecil Beaton, Harry Rottenberg, Humphrey Bourne, Neville Blackburn, Phillips Holmes, Robert Hewison, Victor Stiebel
    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)