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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... -
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. -
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).... -
Delpini a la Rossi
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Sayers, James Date: Apr. 26, 1785 Topics: Crossdressing, Etching, Opera, Performing arts, Visual arts Description: "Delpini, dressed as a woman, both arms held above his head, runs forward in profile to the left imitating a dancer. Beneath the title is etched: "Grace was in all her Steps" &c."--British Muse... -
Exquisite Dandies
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Robert, Cruikshank Date: Dec. 8, 1818 Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Gender, Social norms, Visual arts Description: Two men, referred to in the image as "dandies" are pictured dressing themselves. They speak to one another of their appearances. The men are depicted satirically. -
Portrait of Abigail Allen; Portrait of the Female Husband!
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: 1829? Topics: Drawings, Gender diversity, Marriage, Married people, Passing (Gender), Stealth (Transgender) Subject: Abigail Allen, James Allen Description: Captions below images read: "Portrait of Abigail Allen, Wife to the pretended James Allen, she resided with her Associate for more than 21 years, ignorant of her real sex! and what is more astonis... -
Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1778 Topics: Animals, Clothing, Social norms, Sports, Visual arts Description: Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, publish'd as the Act directs [after January 1, 1778?] Two well-dressed young ladies meet before a farm house. On the left, ... -
The Feminine Gender
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Kingsbury, Henry Date: Feb. 2, 1787 Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Etching, Femininities, Gender, Visual arts Description: A rather feminine-looking man walks to the left. He has a protruding "derrière" which makes his coat tails stand out and a very prominant bosom of ruffles. A large hat is set on top of curled hair... -
The Masculine Gender
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Kingsbury, Henry Date: Feb. 2, 1787 Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Etching, Gender, Masculinities, Visual arts Description: A rather mannish-looking woman with a large hat and an enormous parasol walks away from us to the right, holding up her skirts in back with her left hand and revealing tall boots, stockings and a b... -
Lived as a Man
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Mar. 7, 1901 Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, FtMs, Labour, Marriage, Passing (Gender) Subject: Catherine Coombs -
English Woman in Odd Romance
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Jul. 12, 1910 Topics: Educators, Families, FtMs, LGBTQ+ parents, Marriage Subject: Harry Lloyd, Marie Le Roy Description: The Calumet News (Calumet, Michigan) -
Woman Teacher Lives As Man Thirty Years
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: United Press Date: Jul. 8, 1910 Topics: Death and dying, Educators, Families, FtMs, Marriage, Passing (Gender) Subject: Harry Lloyd, Marie Le Roy Description: The Bridgeport Evening Farmer (Bridgeport, CT) -
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) -
England.
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: London Telegraph, Cork Reporter Date: Jun. 22, 1870 Topics: Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Prejudices Subject: Arthur Clinton, Ernest Boulton, Frederick William Park, Montagu Williams, The London Globe -
The Tartan Skirt: The Scottish Magazine for the Gender Community No. 15 (July 1995)
Collection: The Tartan Skirt Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Creator: Forrester, Anne Date: Jul. 1995 Topics: Appearance, Bathrooms, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Labelling, Law, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Marriage law, Masculinities, MtFs, Organisations, Passing (Gender), Police, Public facilities, Support groups, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Travel, Weddings Subject: Alison Laing, Crosslynx, Gender Dysphoria Trust International, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Merissa Sherrill Lynn, The Grampian Gender Group (3G), The Harry Benjamin Standards of Care
