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  1. 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.
  2. 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...
  3. 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.
  4. 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)
  5. 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.
  6. 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)
  7. 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
  8. 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)
  9. 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...
  10. Report from the Military Project

     
    Collection: International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy: Annual Proceedings and Newsletters
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Stuart, Sharon Ann
    Date: Aug. 1993
    Topics: Air force, Army, Coming out, Crossdressing, Military, Military discharge, Military law, Navy, Surveys, Transgender community, Transgender military personnel, Transgender people
    Subject: George Brown, John W. Shannon, Military Law Project, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
  11. Repeal of the Houston Crossdressing Ordinance

     
    Collection: International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy: Annual Proceedings and Newsletters
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph
    Date: 1992
    Topics: Crossdressing, Discrimination, Lobbying, Women's movement
    Subject: Dale Gradinsky, Ernest McGowan, Jim McConn, John Goodner, Lance Lalor, League of Women Voters, Phyllis Randolph Frye
  12. 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)
  13. 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)
  14. 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.
  15. 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.)
  16. Portrait of Ella Wesner

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1870 to 1908
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Male impersonators
    Subject: Ella Wesner
  17. Portrait of Ella Wesner

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1870 to 1908
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Male impersonators, Photography
    Subject: Central Music Hall, Ella Wesner, Harrison Collection
  18. Portrait of Ella Wesner

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1870 to 1908
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Male impersonators
    Subject: Ella Wesner
  19. Portrait Ella Wesner

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1870 to 1908
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Male impersonators
    Subject: Ella Wesner
  20. 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)
  21. 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)
  22. 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)
  23. Ona żuje i pali.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 21, 1889
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, FtMs, Gender segregation in labour, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Karol White, Nora Smith
    Description: Ameryka (Toledo, Ohio)
  24. 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.
  25. 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."
  26. 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
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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)
  30. 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
  31. 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)
  32. Murray Hall Lived a Rounder's Life

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 19, 1901
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, Families, FtMs, Marriage, Passing (Gender), Politics, Right to vote
    Subject: Barney Martin, Minnie Hall, Murray Hall, Thomas Moran
  33. Murray Hall Inquest Closed

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 29, 1901
    Topics: Cancer, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Wills
    Subject: Imelda Hall, Murray Hall, W. C. Gallagher, Willliam Reno
  34. Mrs. S. E. Seelye

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 17, 1886
    Topics: Army, Crossdressing, Desertion, Military, Military, Passing (Gender), Soldiers
    Subject: Franklin Thompson, Sarah E. Seelye
    Description: The Grenada Sentinel (Grenada, MS)
  35. Mrs. Jane Westover

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 20, 1900
    Topics: Acceptance, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Occupations
    Subject: Jane Westover
    Description: Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, NC)
  36. More About the Green Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 25, 1902
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: George Green, Miss Parker
  37. Mob Pursues Man in Woman's Dress

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 28, 1910
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Physical violence
    Subject: E. C. Heffner, H. F. Pederson, Joe Swanson, L. B. Delano, Tom Ferrell, Walter Waller
  38. Miss Willie Ray Sticks to Pants

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 24, 1903
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Gender
    Subject: James Gatlin, Willie Ray
    Description: The Canton Times (Canton, Mississippi)
  39. Miss Ellis Glenn––Mr. E. B Glenn

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Daily State Journal
    Date: Jan. 1900
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Identification photographs
    Subject: Ellis Glenn
  40. Miss Babe Bean

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 21, 1898
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressing
    Subject: Babe Bean
    Description: The Argus (Holbrook, Arizona)
  41. 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)
  42. Memorial Obituary of Samuel Cohen

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Standard Star New Rochelle, New York
    Date: Sep. 14, 1964
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, Military, Soldiers
    Subject: Samuel Cohen
  43. Maud Coxhead As A Witness

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 27, 1903
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Anthony Gibbon, Charlie Scott
  44. Masquerading as Men

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 8, 1902
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Military, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Police, Police brutality, Soldiers
    Subject: Caroline Hall, Charles Hall, Christian Davis, Ellis Glenn, Eva Henderson, George Green, Hannah Snell, James Barry, Jessie Sherwood, Murray Hamilton Hall, Nadejda Dourovna, W.C. Howard
    Description: The Evening World (New York, NY)
  45. Masquerading as Men

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 29, 1902
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Harry Gorman
  46. Masqueraded as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 18, 1901
    Topics: Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Imprisonment, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Elbert B. Glenn, Ellis Glenn
    Description: Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, CT)
  47. Masquerade As Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 29, 1911
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, Labour, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Harriet Kelley
  48. Mary Read and Ann Bonny First and Only Women Pirates

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 12, 1905
    Topics: Crossdressing, Imprisonment, Maritime occupations, Marriage, Military, Pirates
    Subject: Anne Bonny, Captain Avery, Captain Johnson, Marryat J. Clarke, Mary Read, Robert Louis Stevenson, Russell Pyle, William J. Le Moyne, Wood Rogers
  49. Many Years in Man's Attire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 27, 1899
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Occupations, Painting
    Subject: Catherine Coombs
    Description: Dakota Farmers' Leader (Canton, SD)
  50. Man-Woman Says Man Out in the World Is A Hunter of Women

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Anderson, Cora
    Date: May 15, 1914
    Topics: Beauty standards, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Essentialism, Gender, Passing (Gender), Patriarchy, Rape, Sexual harassment
    Subject: Cora Anderson
    Description: The Day Book (Chicago, IL)