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  1. Roberta Cowell Driving Car (April 1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 1954
    Topics: Automobile driving, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  2. Roberta Cowell in France (March 1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Loneliness, MtFs, Restaurants, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: According to Transas City the following is found on the back of the photograph: “…sometimes I felt lonely…” Dated Wednesday, 17 March, 1954.
  3. Roberta Cowell in French Streetcar (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1954
    Topics: Cable cars (Streetcars), MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  4. Roberta Cowell in Pisa, Italy (April 22, 1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Cameras, Leaning Tower (Pisa, Italy), MtFs, Photography, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: According to Transas City, the following appears on the back of the photograph: "Risking recognition, Roberta interrupts her escape to take pictures at Pisa."
  5. Roberta Cowell in the Kitchen

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1945 to 1957
    Topics: Cooking, Kitchens, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Women biographers
    Subject: Picture Post, Roberta Cowell
    Description: Below the photo the following quote appears: "'Cooking was unexpectedly exciting.'"
  6. Roberta Cowell in Villefranche (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Gardens--France, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: According to Transas City the following is found on the back of the photograph: “The March sun was warm, and the roses were already in bloom, and no one knew me.”
  7. Roberta Cowell Newspaper Clipping

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Rockford Register-Republic
    Date: Aug. 20, 1956
    Topics: Air force, Gender realignment surgery, Military, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  8. 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
  9. 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...
  10. Roberta Wins Hill Climb

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 5, 1957
    Topics: Automobile racing, Motorsports, MtFs, Shelsley Walsh Hill-climb Race, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell, Tony Marsh, W.B. Croot
    Description: Roberta Cowell (wartime fighter pilot who had sex change operation) wearing head scarf round her head, examining the engine of her car with a mechanic in the pits, camera pans up and we look down o...
  11. Sex Changeo

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: International News Photos
    Date: Apr. 21, 1954
    Topics: Air pilots, Military, Automobile racing drivers, Ex-prisoners of war, Gender affirming surgery, Motorsports, MtFs, Parents of transgender people, Transgender parents, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  12. Sex-Change Flier in News

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press
    Date: Oct. 13, 1958
    Topics: Air force, Gender role, Masculinities, Military, MtFs, Travel
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  13. Through Treatments British Father of Two Becomes Opposite Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Mar. 6, 1954
    Topics: Birth certificate amendments, Gender realignment surgery, Medicalisation, Military, MtFs, Physicians, Plastic surgery, Transgender parents, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  14. Tolerance Asked For Those Cheated At Birth

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Alvarez, Walter C.
    Date: Mar. 22, 1955
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Autobiographies, Crossdressers, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Legal name, MtFs, Physicians, Psychoanalysis, Religions, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Roberta Cowell
  15. Transsexualism, Birth Registration and the Right to Marry: Schedule of Legislative and Case Law Developments in Europe

     
    Collection: Academic Papers and Publications
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Burgess, David, Ekins, Richard
    Date: Mar. 1986
    Topics: Birth certificate amendments, Gender realignment surgery, Law, Legal process, Marriage, Partners of transgender people, Public opinion, Transsexual people
    Subject: 1980 Transsexuellengesetz, 2nd International Congress on Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, Circular Letter 11 Nov. '76, Czechoslovakian State Health Institution, Dave King, European Commission on Human Rights, French Courts, inter alia, Mark Rees v. United Kingdom, Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs, Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics, Portuguese Civil Code Article 10, Roberta Cowell, Sunday Pictorial, Sweedish Social Welfare Board, Symposium on Psycho-Legal Aspects of Sexual Problems