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  1. Years in Masquerade

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 10, 1895
    Topics: Arrests, Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Lady's maids, Parks, Police, Prisoners
    Subject: Estelle Lawrence, Reginald Culton, Violet Beacon, Violet Dell
    Description: Waterbury Evening Democrat (Waterbury, Connecticut)
  2. Would Save Glenn

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Evening Times-Republican
    Date: Nov. 28, 1899
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing, Marriage, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Alice Glenn, Ellis Glenn, James Dukes
    Description: Evening Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa)
  3. Would Rather Be Mabel: Than "Dave," and Again She Has Put on Skirts

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 30, 1902
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Passing (Gender), Violence
    Subject: Dave Kyle, Ellis Glenn, John A. McElhaney, Mabel McElhaney, Samuel O. Boyce
  4. Women With Records

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Elmore Bulletin
    Date: Nov. 13, 1892
    Topics: Crossdressing, Marriage, Military, Passing (Gender), Physicians, Romanticism, Sailors
    Subject: Alexander Burke, Ann Bonny, Anne Jane Thornton, Hannah Snell, Hans Brandt, James Barry, Mary Anne Taylor, Mary Parlour, Mary Read, William Talbot
    Description: Elmore Bulletin (Rocky Bar, Idaho)
  5. Women Who Were Soldiers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 31, 1914
    Topics: Crossdressing, Military, Passing (Gender), Soldiers
    Subject: Balkan War, Christina Davis, Hannah Snell, Harrietena Korotkiewitch, James Barry, Joan of Arc, Milena Manditch, Peninsular War, Phoebe Hessel, Russo-Japanese War, Serbian Committee for National Defense, Sophie Yovanovitch, Xenia Kritskaya
    Description: The Gazette-Times (Heppner, OR)
  6. Women Who Have Won Renown on the Battlefield

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 22, 1896
    Topics: Combat, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Masculinities, Military, Soldiers, Women
    Subject: Christine Davies, Hannah Snell, James Berry, John Taylor, Mary Ann Talbet, Mary Dixon, Mother Ross
  7. Women Sphinxes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Gillilan, J.D.
    Date: Jan. 15, 1913
    Topics: Crossdressing, Marriage, Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Joe Monahan
    Description: Evening Capital News (Boise, Idaho)
  8. Women of Spartan Courage

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 13, 1893
    Topics: Combat, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Desertion, Military, Marriage, Military, Passing (Gender), Soldiers, Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Charles D. Fuller, Frances Day, Franklin Thompson, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Company, Sarah E. Seelye
  9. Women in Trousers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 6, 1893
    Topics: Clothing, Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Daughters, Femininities, Gender role, Labour, Marriage, Masculinities, Mothers, Police, Smoking, Travel, Upbringing
    Subject: Emily Paxton, George Sand, Jane Dieulafoy, Josephine Cox, Louis Herman Tobush, Mary Walker, Robert Murdock Smith, Rosa Bonheur, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarolta Vay, Tom King
    Description: St. Paul Daily Globe (St. Paul, Minnesota)
  10. Women in Men's Clothes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Philadelphia Ledger
    Date: Jun. 28, 1866
    Topics: Army, Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Crossdressing, Gender role, Physicians
    Subject: Mary Walker
    Description: The Public Ledger (Memphis, Tennessee)
  11. Women in Men's Clothes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 27, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Military, Passing (Gender), Soldiers
    Subject: Bessie Finegold, Catherine Coombs, Charles D. Fuller, Chevalier D'Eon, Christian Cavanagh, Christine Jorgensen, Ella Duke, Ellis Glenn, Frank Mayne, Franklin Thompson, James Barry, Jane Westover, Julia Forest, L. M. Blaylock, Louis HErman, Louis XV, Louise Watson, Maggie Curley, Mary Talbot, Mary Walker, Minnie Briggs, Murray Hall, Otto Schaefer, Sarolta Vay, Tonina Marinello, Tony Leesa
    Description: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser (Honolulu, HI)
  12. Women in Men's Clothes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 27, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Burial ceremonies, Crossdressing, FtMs, Labour, Marriage, Physicians, Soldiers
    Subject: Bessie Finegold, Catherine Coombs, Charles D. Fuller, Chevalier D'Eon, Christian Cavanagh, Ellis Glenn, Frank Blunt, Frank Mayne, Franklin Thompson, James Barry, Julia Forest, Louis HErman, Louise Watson, Maggie Curley, Mary East, Mary Talbot, Mary Walker, Minnie Briggs, Murray Hall, Nora Smith, Otto Schaffer, Sarolta Vay, Tonina Marinello, Tony Leesa
    Description: The Sea Coast Echo (Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi)
  13. Women as Men

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: St. James Gazette
    Date: Aug. 8, 1890
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, Maritime occupations, Marriage, Military, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Passing (Gender), Physicians, Pirates
    Subject: Alexander Burke, Anne Bonny, Anne Jane Thornton, Hannah Snell, Hans Brandt, James Barry, Mary Parlour, Mary Read, Samuel Bundy
  14. Woman's Queer Masquerade

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 15, 1911
    Topics: Crossdressing, Divorce, Employment discrimination, Painting
    Description: The Donaldsonville Chief (Donaldsonville, LA)
  15. Woman Who Passes as a Man for Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 27, 1901
    Topics: Burial ceremonies, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Marriage, Passing (Gender), Wills
    Subject: Cecilia Florence Lowe, Murray Hall
  16. Woman Seeks U.S. Aid to Wear Trousers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masculinities
    Subject: Augusta Seib
    Description: A clipping from a newspaper detailing how Augusta Seib was prosecuted for wearing masculine attire, and passing as a man for nine years. This item was contributed to DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  17. Woman Rushes into Burning Building to Die with Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 12, 1916
    Topics: Crossdressing, Divorce, FtMs, Marriage law, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Margaret Gaffney, Robert Gaffney
    Description: The Sunday Telegram (Clarksburg, WV)
  18. Woman Played Man Forty Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 3, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, FtMs, Marriage, Sailors
    Subject: Catherine Coombe
    Description: The Abbeville Press and Banner (Abbeville, SC)
  19. Woman Masqueraded as Man; Twice Married, Once Husband, Once Wife

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 19, 1915
    Topics: Crossdressing, Marriage, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Eugene de Forest
  20. Woman Married Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 27, 1902
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, Families
    Subject: Alice M. Howard, Edith Dyer, William C. Howard
    Description: The Butler Weekly Times (Butler, MO)
  21. Woman Lives as a Man for Nine Years.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 7, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masquerading
    Subject: Augusta Seib
    Description: Clipping talking about Augusta Seib's crossdressing. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  22. Woman is "Man" for 18 Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 20, 1916
    Topics: Crossdressing, Marriage, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Robert Gaffney
    Description: Rogue River Courier (Grants Pass, OR)
  23. Woman in Prison As a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 11, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Families, Femininities, Imprisonment, LGBTQ+ relationships, Police
    Subject: Burt Martin, Lena Martin
    Description: Arizona Republican (Phoenix, AZ)
  24. Wisconsin's Wonder

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 4, 1883
    Topics: Crossdressing, Marriage, Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Frank Dubois, Gertrude Fuller, S. J. Hudson
    Description: The News and Herald (Winnsboro, S. C.)
  25. "Wife" Denies She Knew "Husband" Was Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 29, 1921
    Topics: Crossdressing, Marriage
    Subject: Ethel M. Kimball, James Hathaway, Louise Margaret Aechtler
  26. "Wife" Denies She Knew "Husband" Was Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 30, 1921
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, FtMs, Marriage
    Subject: Ethel M. Kimball, James Hathaway, Louise Margaret Aechtler
    Description: The Democratic Advocate (Westminster, Maryland)
  27. Why Transvestites Make Other People Nervous

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Kakutani, Michiko
    Date: Jan. 24, 1992
    Topics: Androgyny, Crossdressing, Drag, Gender ambiguity, Gender bending, LGBTQ+ books, Race relations, Transvestites
    Subject: Abbé de Choisy, Cultural Anxiety, Henry David Hwang, M. Butterfly, Marjorie Garber, Shi Pei Pu, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
    Description: This is a clipping from the New York Times that is a book review for Marjorie Garber's "Vested Interest: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety" which talks about gender variance icons in popular medi...
  28. Which? A Man in Woman's Dress

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 1, 1875
    Topics: Clothing, Courts, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Government, Law, Monarchy, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee d'Eon de Beaumont, Chevalier D'Eon, Horace Walpole, Louis XV, Milwaukee Sentinel
    Description: Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis, IN)
  29. When Women Pirates Were Abroad

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Boston Post
    Date: Jul. 25, 1906
    Topics: Books, Crossdressing, Historical periods, Imprisonment, Maritime occupations, Marriage, Military, Passing (Gender), Pirates
    Subject: Anne Bonny, Mary Read
    Description: The Star (Reynoldsville, PA)
  30. What is it?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 21, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Medical examinations, Prisoners
  31. Wedding Recalls Mystery

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 6, 1903
    Topics: Adoption, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Families, Farmers, FtMs, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Alice Howard, Edith Dyer Howard, George Richmond, William C. Howard
  32. Wears Man's Attire in Order to Earn Living

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 30, 1908
    Topics: Children, Crossdressing, FtMs, Immigration, Labour, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Frank Woodhull, Mary Johnson
    Description: The Mitchell Capital (Mitchell, SD)
  33. Was Queer Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 31, 1901
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing, Lawyers, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Elbert B. Glenn, Ellis Glenn
  34. Was Ellis Glenn Her Twin Brother

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 31, 1905
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing, Families, Prisons
    Subject: Ellis Glenn
    Description: The Fairmont West Virginian (Fairmont, WV)
  35. Was a "Man" for Eight Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1909
    Topics: Black people, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Transmasculine people
    Subject: James Allen, Maude Allen
    Description: Article in the Cleveland Gazette about a Black woman who chose to pass as a man to avoid gender discrimination in the workforce.
  36. Unsolved Mystery. The Strange Case of George Green in Ettrick

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 23, 1902
    Topics: Crossdressing, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: George Green, John Biddles, Mary Green
  37. Unknown Dead Man in Woman's Clothes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 10, 1907
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Death and dying
  38. Under False Colors

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 20, 1876
    Topics: Crossdressing, Offenders, Passing (Gender), Racism
    Subject: Aunt Crutchie, Frances Thompson
    Description: The Pulaski Citizen (Pulaski, Tenn.)
  39. Two Female Buccaneers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 14, 1909
    Topics: Crossdressing, Imprisonment, Marriage, Pirates, Right to vote, Soldiers
    Subject: Ann Bonny, Mary Read
  40. Trousers Not Allowed; Skirts Mean Arrests

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 5, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masquerading
    Subject: Augusta Seib
    Description: Clipping from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle where Augusta Seib talks about being arrested if they wear trousers and stopped by police if they wear skirts. This item was contributed to DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  41. Trousers Good Enough

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 16, 1911
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masquerading
    Subject: Augusta Seib, Johann Hoch, Karl Kimmel
    Description: Clipping about Augusta Seib's life before being arrested. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  42. Tommy Atkins, A Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: O'Flaherty, Hal
    Date: Aug. 20, 1916
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ partners, Marriage, Military, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Tommy Atkins
    Description: The Daily Missourian (Columbian, MO)
  43. Tom King is a Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 17, 1893
    Topics: Clothing, Cowboys, Crossdressing, Escapes, Passing (Gender), Prisoners
    Subject: Tom King
    Description: The Evening World (New York, NY)
  44. Tom King

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 7, 1894
    Topics: Appearance, Childhood, Clothing, Crossdressing, Escaped prisoners, Marriage, Police officers, Theft
    Subject: Tom King
    Description: Sierra County Advocate (Kingston, NM)
  45. This Is Not a Picture of a Distinguished Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 24, 1904
    Topics: Archeology, Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, Law
    Subject: Jane Dieulafoy, Rosa Bonheur
    Description: The Spokane Press (Spokane, Washington)
  46. Thirteen Years a Girl-Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 13, 1914
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Cora Anderson, Dorothy Klenowski, Mary White, Ralph Kerwinieo
    Description: The Ogden Standard (Ogden City, UT)
  47. There is a Remarkable Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 14, 1886
    Topics: Army, Civil wars, Crimes, Crossdressing, Desertion, Military, Military, Soldiers
    Subject: Franklin Thompson, Sarah E. Edmonds, Sarah E. Seelye
    Description: Arizona Weekly Journal-Miner (Prescott, AZ)
  48. The 'Wrong' Sex: A New Definition of Childhood Pain

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Goleman, Daniel
    Date: Mar. 22, 1994
    Topics: Crossdressing, Eunuchs, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity disorder, Homosexuality, Medicalization, Transvestites, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: K.D Lang, RuPaul
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to racist and transphobic language. Note the term ‘berdache’ it is a historical slur against Native American people who...
  49. The Women Pirates of America

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Spillane, R.
    Date: Nov. 14, 1909
    Topics: Crimes, Crossdressing, Gender segregation in labour, Pirates
    Subject: Anne Bonny, Mary Reed
    Description: The Sunday Star (Washington, D.C.)
  50. The Women Pirates of America

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Spillane, R.
    Date: Nov. 14, 1909
    Topics: Crimes, Crossdressing, Femininities, Masculinities, Pirates
    Subject: Anne Bonny, John Rackam, Mary Reed
  51. The Transgender Menace Next Door

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Gray, Lisa
    Date: Jun. 28, 2001
    Topics: Army, Bathrooms, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Gender identity, Harassment, Lawyers, Legal aid, Legal name, Marriage law, Military discharge, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Elizabeth Birch, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Human Rights Campaign (HRC), League of Women Voters, Littleton v. Prange, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Sarah DePalma, The Transgender Menace
  52. The Third Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 3, 1878
    Topics: Army, Courts, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Femininities, Fencing, Gender identity, Politics
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Louis XV, Louis XVI, National Assembly
    Description: Staunton Spectator (Staunton, VA)
  53. The Murray Hall Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 14, 1901
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, Harassment, Marriage, Masculinities
    Subject: Murray Hall
  54. The Milwaukee Girl Appears in Court in Male Attire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 20, 1893
    Topics: Adoption, Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Siblings
    Subject: Annie Morris, Chief Janssen, Chief of Police McGrath, Detective Frank Miller, Frank Blunt Held, Judge Watson
    Description: Wood County Reporter (Grand Rapids, Wisconsin)
  55. The Men in Petticoats in London

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 10, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Cosmetics, Courts, Crossdressing, Jewelry, Passing (Gender), Police
    Subject: Arthur Clinton
    Description: Alexandria Gazette (Alexandra, D.C.)
  56. The Masqueraders.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: English Lord and American Consul
    Date: Jul. 5, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Navy, Sodomy laws
    Subject: Arthur Pelham Clinton, C. H. Thomas, Edward I, Edward XIX, George II, John S. Fisk, Louis Charles Hurt, Martin Luther Cumming, New York World, William Summerville
  57. The Long Talked of Trial Begins at Parkersburg

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 9, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Forgery, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Ellis Glenn, George Hoover, Vesta Hoover
    Description: The Paducah Sun (Paducah, KY)
  58. The Jury

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Jul. 28, 1901
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing, Law
    Subject: Ellis Glenn
    Description: Marietta Daily Leader (Marietta, OH)
  59. The Idyl of Wild Life

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 3, 1880
    Topics: Almshouses, Cave dwellers, Crossdressing, Hunting
    Subject: George Slater, Joseph Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell, Marie Louise Perry
    Description: Watertown Republican (Watertown, Wisconsin)
  60. The Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 9, 1883
    Topics: Androgyny, Crossdressing, FtMs, Interviews, LGBTQ+ partners, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Frank Dubois, Gertrude Fuller, H. L. Morrison
    Description: Press and Daily Dakotaian (Yankton, Dakota Territory, SD)
  61. The Fair Mabel Under Arrest

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Wheeling News
    Date: Jul. 28, 1902
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Imprisonment, Occupations, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Atwell Yost, Central Fishing Club, Dave Kyle, Earl Kline, Mabel McElhaney, Roy Moore
    Description: West Virginia Daily Oil Review (Sistersville, WV)
  62. The Ellis Glenn Trial

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 11, 1901
    Topics: Crossdressing, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: E.J. Byers, Elbert Glenn, Ellis Glenn
    Description: The Bee (Earlington, KY)
  63. The Death of Charley Parkhurst

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 4, 1880
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressing, Death, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Charley Parkhurst, Hank Monk
    Description: Morning Appeal (Carson City, Nevada)
  64. The Chevalier D'Eon

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Chicago Daily Tribune
    Date: Jun. 9, 1877
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Military, Transgender people
    Subject: Anna Seward, Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee d'Eon de Beaumont, Chevalier D'Eon, Louis XV, Samuel Breck
  65. The Celebrated but Unfortunate Chevalier d'Eon

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Gazette of the United States and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
    Date: Oct. 22, 1796
    Topics: Crossdressing, Fencing, Passing (Gender), Theatre
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon
    Description: Gazette of the United States & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA)
  66. The Cairo News

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 2, 1863
    Topics: Crossdressing, FtMs, Military, Soldiers, Suicide
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide. Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye (Burlington, IA)
  67. Tennessee News

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Memphis Daily Appeal
    Date: Jan. 19, 1877
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Crossdressing, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Sally Walker
    Description: An article in The Memphis Daily Appeal mentioning the arrest of Sally Walker on the basis of wearing female clothes. The clipping compares the case of Sally Walker to that of Frances Thompson.
  68. Ten to Two

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Jul. 30, 1901
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing, Law
    Subject: Ellis Glenn
    Description: Marietta Daily Leader (Marietta, OH)
  69. Tables Turned

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 20, 1901
    Topics: Crossdressing, Forgery, Law, Passing (Gender), Witnesses
    Subject: Elbert Glenn, Ellis Glenn
    Description: The Paducah Sun (Paducah, KY)
  70. Sweet Mabel

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Wheeling News
    Date: Jul. 24, 1902
    Topics: Crossdressing, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Dave Kyle, Earl Kline, Ernest McElhaney, G. D. Richards, Guy McElhaney, John Reedy, M. B. Davis, Mabel McElhaney, Roy Moore
    Description: West Virginia Daily Oil Review (Sistersville, WV)
  71. Stupid and Vulgar.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 14, 1899
    Topics: Crimes, Crossdressing, Hate speech, Imprisonment, LGBTQ+ partners, Twins
    Subject: Ella Duke, Ellis Glenn
    Description: Marietta Daily Leader (Marietta, Ohio)
  72. Studies in Trousers Men and Women as They Appeared to a Masquerading Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 1, 1910
    Topics: Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Gender relations, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Elena Smith
    Description: Arizona Republican (Phoenix, AZ)
  73. Strange Romance Revealed

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 12, 1910
    Topics: Crossdressing, Families, FtMs, LGBTQ+ relationships, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Charles Bradlaugh, Harry Lloyd, Marie Le Roy
    Description: The Wenatchee Daily World (Wenatchee, Washington)
  74. Story of "Murray Hall" Told by Her Adopted Daughter

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 20, 1901
    Topics: Artists, Clothing, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Elections, Fishers, FtMs, Marriage, Masculinities, Miners, Politics
    Subject: Catherine Coombs, Celia Hall, Charlie Wilson, Chevalier D'Eon, Christina Becrens, Felix Francoine, Laure Bernard, Max Finegold, Minnie Hall, Murray Hall, Pierro Loganani
  75. Story of "Harry Lloyd"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 10, 1910
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying
    Subject: Charles Bradlaugh, Elizabeth Lloyd, Harry Lloyd, Marie Le Roy
  76. Story of a Modern Rosalind

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 27, 1897
    Topics: Childhood, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Families, Gender diversity, Marriage, Monasteries, Mute persons, Passing (Gender), Police, Travel
    Subject: Babe Bean
  77. Singular Case - An Oath of Allegiance Between Two Noted Characters

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 21, 1844
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Robbery
    Subject: Almira C., Beefsteak Pete, John Williams, Joseph Liness, Peter Sewally, Theodore Augustus Jackson
    Description: Content warning: this item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic language.
  78. She Will Fight for Right to Wear Trousers, and Ask President Roosevelt to Help Her

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 11, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masquerading
    Description: Newspaper clipping about a woman fighting for her right to wear men's trousers and being sent to prison for crossdressing. Item reproduced at highest resolution available. This item was contributed...
  79. She Prefers Jail in Trousers to Liberty in Skirts

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masculinities
    Subject: Augusta Seib
    Description: An article published in the St. Louis Post Dispatch detailing a conversation between Augusta Sieb and a police officer. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  80. She Plays Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1908
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressing, FtMs, Immigration
    Subject: Frank Woodhull, Mary Johnson
    Description: Waterbury Evening Democrat (Waterbury, CT)
  81. She Masquerades as Man in Fight for Life

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 12, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masquerading
    Subject: Augusta Seib
    Description: Clipping from the Oakland Tribute talking about Augusta Seib and their masquerading as a man to get a job. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  82. Senator Taylor's Witticism

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Popular Magazine
    Date: Jun. 15, 1912
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masculinities, Physicians, United States. Congress--Leadership
    Subject: Bob Taylor, Mary Walker
    Description: The Day Book (Chicago, Illinois)
  83. Seattle Man-Woman Bares "His" Soul

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 7, 1916
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, FtMs, Gender role, Labour, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Smoking
    Subject: Margaret Hart, Robert Gaffney
  84. Romance of a Poor Young Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 19, 1889
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Labour
    Subject: Frank James, Jesse James, Joseph Cox, Josephine Cox, Marshel Chappel
    Description: The Bottineau Pioneer (Bottineau, ND)
  85. River of tears

     
    Collection: Brandon Teena Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Stuart, Jan
    Date: 1999
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ films, Sexual identity
    Subject: Alicia Goranson, Andy Bienen, Boys Don't Cry, Brandon Teena, Brendan Sexton II, Chloe Sevigny, Hilary Swank, Jeannetta Arnette, Jim Denault, John Lotter, Kimberly Peirce, Lana Tisdel, Peter Sarsgaard, Thomas Nissen
    Description: A review of the film "Boys Don't Cry" written by Jan Stuart. Content warning: This item relates to the death of Brandon Teena, who was murdered and sexually assaulted as the target of gruesome a...
  86. Remarkable Career of Woman in Trousers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 9, 1910
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mental disorders, Military, Motherhood, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: A Modern Sphinx, A.L. Martinez, All the Year Round, Basil Brooke, Daily Mail, Elena Smith, Harry Lloyd, James Barry, Josias Cleote, Marie Le Roy, Sandwell Clerke
    Description: Bisbee Daily Review (Bisbee, AZ)
  87. Prisoner A Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1901
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing, Murderers, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Sexual assault
    Subject: James Brady
    Description: Bryan Morning Eagle (Bryan, Texas)
  88. Prefers Jail to Skirts.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 31, 1911
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masquerading
    Subject: Augusta Seib, Karl Kimmel
    Description: Clipping from the Evening Times-Republican about Augusta Seib masquerading and going to jail. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  89. Preferred Jail to Wearing Skirts

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 2, 1911
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Law, Wages
    Subject: Gus Seib
    Description: The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)
  90. Pink-Cheeked Reginald

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: New York Recorder
    Date: Aug. 18, 1895
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender segregation in labour, Physicians, Workhouses
    Subject: Estelle Lawrence, Reginald Culton
    Description: The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana)
  91. Personated a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 23, 1900
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Military, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Ladislas Vay, Sandor Vay, Sarolta Vay
    Description: Phillipsburg Mail (Phillipsburg, Montana)
  92. Passed Off as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1908
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, FtMs, Immigration, Law, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Travel
    Subject: Frank Woodhull, Mary Johnson
    Description: Evening Star (Washington, DC)
  93. Of Men, Women, and Those Living Somewhere In Between

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Henetz, Patty
    Date: Oct. 26, 1997
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender affirming surgery, Gender dysphoria, Intersex, Medicalization, Transgender people, Transitioning status
    Subject: An Engendered Species, Atlanta Educational Gender Information Service (AEGIS), Dallas Denny, Harry Benjamin, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Intersex Society of North America, Virginia Prince
    Description: A clipping from a newspaper that discusses many points of view on the issues of medicalization, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming surgeries, and intersex individuals.
  94. North Carolina News

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 30, 1880
    Topics: Assigned female at birth, BIPOC, Black people, Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ parents, Transmasculine people
    Description: A clipping from the Yorkville Enquirer mentioning a "colored woman who was raised as a boy."
  95. New Haven's Woman Barber

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 15, 1900
    Topics: Crossdressing, Occupations, Training programs
    Subject: Jane Westover
  96. Negro Must Wear Men's Clothing

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 30, 1922
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black people, Criminalization, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Rachel Watson, Richard Watson
    Description: An article in The Dispatch News about Rachael Watson, a Black person living as a woman who was arrested and forced to wear men's clothing.
  97. Negro Must Wear Men's Clothing

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 31, 1922
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black people, Criminalization, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Rachel Watson, Richard Watson
    Description: An article in The Union Daily Times about Rachael Watson, a Black person living as a woman who was arrested and forced to wear men's clothing.
  98. Mysterious Lady

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 21, 1898
    Topics: Crossdressing, Disabilities, Traffic accident victims
    Subject: Babe Bean
    Description: The Argus (Holbrook, AZ)
  99. Mysterious Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 27, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Prisoners
    Subject: Cora Alice Cunningham, Ellis Glenn
  100. Mysterious As Ever

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 16, 1901
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing, Kidnappings, Passing (Gender), Prisoners
    Subject: Bert Glenn, Ellis Glenn, Ernie Byers, Julies Richardson, William Richardson
    Description: The Billings Gazette (Billings, MT)