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  1. Ella Weaner, Aged Actress, Dead.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 12, 1917
    Topics: LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Performance art
    Subject: Ella Wesner, London Theatre, The New York Times
    Description: A clipping from "The New York Times" titled: "Ella Weaner, Aged Actress, Dead" discussing the death of Ella Wesner. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.

  2. Miss Gaby Deslys

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Record Press, Deslys, Gaby
    Date: 1915
    Topics:  
    Subject: Gaby Deslys
    Description: Gaby Deslys dressed in men's evening wear. The image was produced as a promotion for Deslys' appearing in London in Rosy Rapture, a one-act play by J.M. Barrie.

  3. Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Philco Publishing Co., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1915
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley
    Description: Tilley dressed as a soldier.

  4. Miss Vesta Tilley in Khaki

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: David Allen & Sons, Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1915
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley
    Description: Sale of these postcards was intended for donation to the War Relief Funds.

  5. Mr. Wilkie Bard

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Bard, Wilkie
    Date: 1910
    Topics:  
    Subject: Wilkie Bard

  6. Miss Zena Dare as Duc de Richelieu in The Dashing Little Duke

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Dare, Zena
    Date: 1910
    Topics:  
    Subject: Zena Dare

  7. Fred Emney

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Gray, Campbell, Emeny, Fred, Sr.
    Date: 1910
    Topics:  
    Subject: Fred Emeny

  8. Miss Hetty King

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Philco Publishing Co., King, Hetty
    Date: 1910
    Topics:  
    Subject: Hetty King
    Description: King wearing braided coat and cap with chin strap.

  9. I'm not so dispoged

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: C.W. Faulkner and Co.
    Date: 1910
    Topics:  

  10. Mr. George Robey

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Robey, George, Wade, Sir George Edward
    Date: 1910
    Topics:  
    Subject: George Robey, Sir George Edward Wade

  11. Miss Gabrielle Ray

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Ray, Gabrielle, Cook, Gabriell Elizabeth Clifford
    Date: 1910
    Topics:  
    Subject: Gabriell Elizabeth Clifford Cook, Gabrielle Ray
    Description: Ray dressed as sailor.

  12. Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Philco Publishing Co., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1910
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley

  13. Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Woolstone Brothers, Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1910
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley
    Description: Part of the Milton "Glossette" series.

  14. Miss Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1910
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley
    Description: Tilley in day gown climbing out of town car. Part of "The Star Series" by G.D. & D., London

  15. Miss Sybil Arnudale

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Bromochrom, Arnudale, Sybil
    Date: 1909
    Topics:  
    Subject: Sybil Arnudale
    Description: Male impersonator dressed as 18th-century male aristocrat.

  16. Miss Hetty King

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, King, Hetty
    Date: 1909
    Topics:  
    Subject: Hetty King
    Description: King wearing day suit and top hat.

  17. Miss Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Philco Publishing Co., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1908
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley

  18. Miss Rita Leggiero as "Little Hal" in "A White Man"

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Leggiero, Rita
    Date: 1908
    Topics:  
    Subject: Rita Leggiero
    Description: Promotional postcard for the 1908 London production of A White Man at the Lyric Theatre.

  19. Miss Hetty King

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Philco Publishing Co., Whitlock, King, Hetty
    Date: 1907
    Topics:  
    Subject: Hetty King
    Description: King wearing suit and boater hat.

  20. Miss Evelyn Millard "Robin Hood"

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Millard, Evelyn
    Date: 1907
    Topics:  
    Subject: Evelyn Millard

  21. Mr. Harry Randall

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Randall, Harry, Randall, Thomas William
    Date: 1907
    Topics:  
    Subject: Harry Randall, Thomas William Randall

  22. Miss Zena Dare in Peter Pan

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Davidson Brothers, Dare, Zena
    Date: 1906
    Topics:  
    Subject: Zena Dare

  23. Miss Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: J. Beagles & Co., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1906
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley

  24. Miss Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1906
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley

  25. Lane? "La Maxixe."

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Hana Studios Ltd.
    Date: 1906
    Topics:  

  26. Miss Edna May

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Philco Publishing Co., May, Edna
    Date: 1906
    Topics:  
    Subject: Edna May

  27. Hetty King

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Philco Publishing Co., Brown, R., King, Hetty
    Date: 1906
    Topics:  
    Subject: Hetty King
    Description: King dressed as sailor with pipe.

  28. Miss Hettie King

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, Whitlock, King, Hetty
    Date: 1905
    Topics:  
    Subject: Hetty King
    Description: King wearing suit and boater hat.

  29. Miss Gertie Millar

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Millar, Gertie
    Date: 1905
    Topics:  
    Subject: Gertie Millar
    Description: Promotional postcard for a 1905 London musical The Spring Chicken.

  30. Miss Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rapid Photo Co., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1905
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley

  31. Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Philco Publishing Co., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1905
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley
    Description: Tilley sitting at a writing desk.

  32. Mr. Harry Randall

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Randall, Harry, Randall, Thomas William
    Date: 1905
    Topics:  
    Subject: Harry Randall, Thomas William Randall

  33. Miss Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Philco Publishing Co., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1905
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley

  34. Miss Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1905
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley

  35. Miss Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1904
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley
    Description: Tilley dressed as a sailor.

  36. Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rotary Photo, E.C., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1903
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley
    Description: Tilley wearing top hat and carrying walking stick.

  37. Miss Vesta Tilley

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Rapid Photo Co., Tilley, Vesta, Powles, Matilda Alice
    Date: 1903
    Topics:  
    Subject: Matilda Alice Powles, Vesta Tilley
    Description: Tilley wearing top hat and carrying walking stick.

  38. My Lady Molly Act I

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: J. Beagles & Co.
    Date: 1903
    Topics:  

  39. Molly Poulton

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Hana Photo, Poulton, Molly
    Date: 1900
    Topics:  
    Subject: Molly Poulton
    Description: Poulton dressed in white bow tie and top hat.

  40. Molly Poulton

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Hana Photo, Poulton, Molly
    Date: 1900
    Topics:  
    Subject: Molly Poulton
    Description: Poulton dressed in white bow tie and top hat.

  41. English 'Queen' Jailed

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Mosley, Leonard O.
    Date: Jan. 4, 1932
    Topics: Crossdressing, Law, Marriage, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Augustine Joesph Hull, George Burrows, Justice Talbot, Norma Jackson
    Description: First page only of article published in Brevities: America's First National Tabloid Weekly, Vol. III, No. 10 on January 4, 1932.

  42. Hetty King and "Yuma" Next Week

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 7, 1911
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressers, Drag kings
    Subject: Bessie Bonehill, Vesta Tilley

  43. Vesta Tilley's Farewell Tears

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 7, 1920
    Topics: Clothing, Drag kings
    Subject: Vesta Tilley

  44. Vesta Tilley's Farewell

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 5, 1920
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressers, Drag kings
    Subject: Vesta Tilley

  45. Clothes and the Woman! (1923)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 27, 1923
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Male impersonators
    Subject: Hetty King
    Description: The fabulous Hetty King impersonates various contemporary male types - toff, cowboy, eastender, among others. "Here's a lady whom everybody knows - when on the stage - Guess - " M/S of a drawing...

  46. The Jubilee Duettists (1933)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: 1933
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag, Female impersonators, Male impersonators, Songs
    Description: The Jubilee Duettists perform the old-fashioned song 'Twickenham Ferry'.

  47. Ringing The Changes (1922)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 20, 1922
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Female impersonators
    Subject: Bert Errol
    Description: Drag act Bert Errol is seen in his dressing room - he changes from men's clothes to women's. C/U of Bert in his dressing room. He looks into a hand mirror and primps his hair whilst a woman atte...

  48. Woman Assumes Role of Husband and Father

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 15, 1910
    Topics: Death and dying, Educators, Families, FtMs, Passing (Gender), Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Eliza Lloyd, Harry Lloyd, Marie Le Roy
    Description: The Spokane Press (Spokane, Washington)

  49. Strange Romance Revealed

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 12, 1910
    Topics: Crossdressing, Families, FtMs, LGBTQ+ relationships, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Charles Bradlaugh, Harry Lloyd, Marie Le Roy
    Description: The Wenatchee Daily World (Wenatchee, Washington)

  50. Females Posed As Men

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 3, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Classification of diseases, Crossdressing, Diplomats, FtMs, Gender bending, Gender role, Hairdressers, Labour, Masculinities, Military, Military discharge, Miners, Passing (Gender), Popes, Sailors
    Subject: Beebe Bean, Catherine Coombs, Charles D. Fuller, Charles Morgan, Charlie Wilson, Chevalier D'Eon, Christian Cavanagh, Christian Welsh, Ellis Glenn, Frank Blunt, Frank Mayne, Frank Morris, Franklin Thompson, James Barry, Jane Westover, John Forest, Julia Forest, L. M. Blaylock, Louis HErman, Louise Watson, Maggie Curley, Marie Engelhardt, Mary Anne Talbot, Mary East, Minnie Briggs, Murray Hall, Nora Smith, Otto Schaffer, Sandor Vay, Sappho, Sarolta Vay, Tommy Lindley, Toniana Marinello, Tony Leesa

  51. 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

  52. Adventurous Lives of Women in Trousers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Neville, Rupert
    Date: Jul. 31, 1910
    Topics: Army, Arrests, Children, Clothing, Crossdressing, FtMs, Hospitals, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Suffragettes
    Subject: Bill Edwards, Catherine Coombs, Charlie Wilson, Christian Davis, Hannah Snell, Harry Lloyd, Harry T. Buford, John Taylor, Madame Velasquez, Marie Le Roy, Mary Anne Talbot

  53. England's Noted Woman-man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 27, 1901
    Topics: Army, Arrests, Death and dying, Femininities, FtMs, Passing (Gender), Physicians, Politics
    Subject: James Barry, Murray Hill

  54. 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

  55. 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)

  56. 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)

  57. 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)

  58. 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)

  59. Studies in Trousers Men and Women as They Appeared to a Masquerading Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 1, 1910
    Topics: Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Gender relations, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Elena Smith
    Description: Arizona Republican (Phoenix, AZ)

  60. I Want Mine

     
    Collection: Sheet Music
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Everettfay, John, Oliver, James B.
    Date: 1903
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Male impersonators, Musical theatre
    Subject: Al. G. Fields Minstrels, W.M. Atkinson, Zelma Rawlston

  61. Woman's Queer Masquerade

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 15, 1911
    Topics: Crossdressing, Divorce, Employment discrimination, Painting
    Description: The Donaldsonville Chief (Donaldsonville, LA)