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  1. Chatham, Oct. 30

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Fleet, T.
    Date: Apr. 15, 1756
    Topics: Crossdressing, Sailors

  2. 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)

  3. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 1836
    Topics: Appearance, Crimes, Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ lovers, Police officers, Secrecy
    Subject: James Walker

  4. Extraordinary Cause of a Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 1, 1836
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, FtMs, LGBTQ+ partners, Marriage, Passing (Gender), Prisoners
    Subject: Eliza Cummings, George Moore Wilson, James Walker, Jane Walker
    Description: The North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, North Carolina)

  5. Jewesses on a Frolic

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1845
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Judaism, Masculinities

  6. Caught Again

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Newark Daily Advertiser
    Date: Aug. 25, 1846
    Topics: Appearance, Black people, Clothing, Crossdressing
    Subject: Peter Sewally

  7. Escape of a Murderer

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 17, 1846
    Topics: Crimes, Crossdressing, Prisoners

  8. Baltimore

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 12, 1860
    Topics: Crossdressing, Equestrian sports, Government, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Louis XVI, Md'lle Zoyara, Pierre Beaumarchais
    Description: The Daily Exchange (Baltimore, MD)

  9. 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)

  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. A Disguised Female Becomes Pugilistic in a New York Bar-Room

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 4, 1869
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masculinities

  12. 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

  13. Crossdressing in London and Texas

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 27, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Black people, Clothing, Crossdressing, Slavery
    Subject: Dick Montgomery
    Description: Nashville Union and American (Nashville, Tennessee)

  14. A black chevalier...

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Evening Star
    Date: Jul. 28, 1870
    Topics: Black people, Crossdressing
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Lizzie
    Description: Evening Star (Washington, DC)

  15. Amusements

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 12, 1875
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Performing arts, Physical characteristics, Role behavior
    Subject: Ernest Byne, Swiss Bell Ringers
    Description: The Daily Gazette (Wilmington, DE)

  16. A Celebrated Case of Rebel Outrage

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 21, 1876
    Topics: Arrests, Black people, Crossdressing

  17. Ledger Lines [5]

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Public Ledger
    Date: Feb. 16, 1878
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Crossdressing, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Jenny Smith
    Description: A clipping from Public Ledger about Jenny Smith, who was arrested and fined for wearing female apparel, and compared to Frances Thompson.

  18. A Wild Woman's Story

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 26, 1878
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Firearms, Hunting, Marriage, Occupations, Social classes, Trapping, Woods
    Subject: Female Hunter of Long Eddy, Harry Slater, Joseph Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell, Mary Ann Slater, Mrs.Wilson
    Description: The Cambria Freeman (Ebensburg, PA)

  19. In Male Attire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 20, 1879
    Topics: Crossdressing, FtMs, Unemployment
    Subject: Madge Rivers
    Description: Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)

  20. 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)

  21. 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)

  22. Charley Parkhurst

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 17, 1880
    Topics: Alcohol, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Physical characteristics, Transportation occupations
    Subject: Charles H. Child, Charley Parkhurst, Ebenezer Balch, Frank Stevens, James Burch, Liberty Childs, Providence Journal, William Hayden
    Description: Evening Star (Washington, DC)

  23. 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."

  24. A Woman's Strange Career

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 18, 1880
    Topics: Almshouses, Cave dwellers, Crossdressing, Hunting, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: George Slater, Joseph Israel Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell, Marie Louise Perry Wilson, Mary Slater
    Description: The Sun (New York, NY)

  25. 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)

  26. A Crack Shot

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 17, 1881
    Topics: Abduction, Arrests, Books, Crossdressing, Gender role, Hunting, Marriage
    Subject: Benjamin K. Bortree, David Fortnam, George W. Slater, Henry W. Shouse, Joseph Israel Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell, Mary Perry, Mary Slater
    Description: Butler Citizen (Butler, PA)

  27. A Crack Shot: The Story of the Female Hunter of Long Eddy

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 17, 1881
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Firearms, Hunting, Marriage, Occupations, Social classes, Trapping
    Subject: Female Hunter of Long Eddy, George W. Slater, Lucy Ann Lobdell
    Description: Butler Citizen (Butler, PA)

  28. A Woman Was Arrested

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 20, 1882
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, FtMs
    Description: Daily Globe (St. Paul, MN.)

  29. 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)

  30. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 9, 1883
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Marriage, Painting, Passing (Gender), Separation
    Subject: Frank Dubois, Gertrude Fuller, H. L. Morrison, S.J. Hudson
    Description: Cooperstown Courier (Cooperstown, ND)

  31. 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)

  32. History of the Woman Claiming to be a Man and Marrying Another Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 10, 1883
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Marriage, Meetings
    Subject: Delia Derthick, Frank Dubois, Tribune
    Description: The Benton Weekly Record (Benton, Montana)

  33. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 12, 1883
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender segregation in labour, LGBTQ+ partners, Marriage, Smoking
    Subject: Frank Dubois, Gertrude Fuller, S. J. Hudson
    Description: Wood River Times (Hailey, Idaho)

  34. 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.)

  35. "Franklin Thompson's" Career

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 7, 1884
    Topics: Crossdressing, Families, Government, Hospitals, Politics, Soldiers, Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Franklin Thompson, Orlando M. Poe, Sarah E. E. Seeley
    Description: Iowa County Democrat (Mineral Point, WI)

  36. A Masquerading Musketeer

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 26, 1884
    Topics: Crossdressing, Desertion, Military, Infection, Military, Soldiers, Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Franklin Thompson, William R. Morse
    Description: Watertown Republican (Watertown, WI)

  37. Fifteen Years in Man's Attire.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 17, 1885
    Topics: Appearance, Businesses, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Frank Gray

  38. 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)

  39. A Woman Soldier

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 13, 1886
    Topics: Crossdressing, Law, Passing (Gender), Retirement benefits, Soldiers, Veterans
    Subject: Company F. Second Regiment Michigan Infantry, Franklin Thompson, Joseph Allen, S. E. Seelye
    Description: Wessington Springs Herald (Wessington Springs, South Dakota)

  40. 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

  41. 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)

  42. "Ellis Glenn" in Jail

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1, 1889
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Assigned gender, Clothing, Crossdressing, Forgery, Imprisonment, Labour, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Siblings
    Subject: Ella Dukes, Ellis Glenn, Nellie Dukes

  43. 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

  44. Death of "Henry" Armstrong

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 11, 1892
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, FtMs
    Subject: Henry Armstrong
    Description: The St. Johns Herald (Apache County, AZ)

  45. Annie Hindle's Strange Career

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: The Philadelphia Inquirer
    Date: Jul. 10, 1892
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag kings, Drag queens, Male impersonators, Weddings
    Subject: Annie Hindle, Annie Ryan, Charles Hindle, Charles Vivian, G. C. Baldwin, Gilbert Saroney, Louise Spangehal

  46. For Fifteen Years a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 14, 1893
    Topics: Arrests, Child abuse, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Annie Morris, Frank Blunt
    Description: Alexandra Gazette (Alexandria, DC)

  47. 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)

  48. 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)

  49. Milwaukee Special

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 21, 1893
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, Crossdressing
    Subject: Annie Morris, Frank Blunt, Jesse Blunt
    Description: Dakota Farmers' Leader (Canton, SD)

  50. 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)