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  1. Roberta Cowell Outside Night Club in Nice (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Nightclubs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  2. Roberta Cowell Standing in Crowd

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: Description of the photo on the Getty Images site: "Transsexual Roberta Cowell, formerly Robert Cowell visits Paris with a friend. Roberta was once a Spitfire pilot, prisoner-of-war, racing mot...
  3. Tamara Rees Backstage at Los Angeles' Club Oasis with Elaine Cayon (November 10, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Douglas, Bob
    Date: Nov. 10, 1955
    Topics: Dancers, MtFs, Strippers, Transsexual people
    Subject: Club Oasis, Elaine Cayon, Tamara Rees
    Description: The following text appears at the bottom of the object: "Leg Check: Embarked on a career as a night club strip teaser after undergoing a sex transformation operation in Denmark, an ex-GI billed...
  4. Tamara Rees Poses on Burlesque Stage with Husband, J.E. Courtland, III (July 29, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 29, 1955
    Topics: MtFs, Partners of transgender people, Theater, Transsexual people
    Subject: J.E. Courtland, Tamara Rees
    Description: The following text appears at the bottom of the object: "WILL LECTURE- Tamara Rees, paratrooper turned 'woman' by sex surgery, poses on the stage of a burlesque theater in Los Angeles with her ...
  5. Tamara Rees Posing in Doorway (1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1955
    Topics: Autobiography, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: Tamara Edel Rees
    Description: This image is the frontispiece to Tamara Rees's autobiography “Reborn.”
  6. Tamara Rees Side-By-Side

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1954
    Topics: LGBTQ+ veterans, Post-operative, Trans women
    Subject: Netherlands, Rees, Tamara, World War II
    Description: A comparison between a photo of Tamara Rees following her operation in the Netherlands with her military photo from World War II.
  7. Tamara Rees Vacuuming at Home (July 28, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press International
    Date: Jul. 28, 1955
    Topics: LGBTQ+ newspapers, Marriage, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: J.E. Courtland, Robert Egan Rees, Tamara Edel Rees
    Description: Along the side of the photo appears the following text, on a separate sheet of paper: "BCP3-7/28-SACRAMENTO: Tamara Edel Rees Sweeps clean and starts life anew. She claims she was transformed fr...
  8. Unknown Drag Queen at Drag Ball (1958)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1958
    Topics: Dance, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Evening gowns, Parties
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.