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  1. Getting Even for Wrongs of a Year

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 5, 1917
    Topics: BIPOC, Clothing, Crossdressing, Customs and practices
    Description: An article in the Bridgeport Evening Farmer describing a group of cross dressing individuals during a local celebration on the island of Grenada .

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Lost By August Seib, and She Is Arrested For Masquerading as a Man.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 30, 1911
    Topics: Crossdressing, Masquerading
    Subject: Augusta Seib, Johann Hoch
    Description: An article about Augusta Seib first published in the Cincinnati Enquirer. This item was contributed to DTA by Hugh Ryan.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Bride Takes on Garb of Man; Not Detected for Nine Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 6, 1908
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender expression, Masculinities
    Subject: Augusta Seib, Johann Hoch
    Description: Clipping about Augusta Seib's crossdressing and why they did it. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.

  12. 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...

  13. 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

  14. Jean Barrios (August 12, 1921)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 12, 1921
    Topics: Crossdressing, Theatre shows, Vaudeville
    Subject: Jean Barrios

  15. Around the Dance Halls

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 30, 1924
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Dance, Femininities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Dorothy Ward, Polly Meadows, Reg Stone
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)