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  1. Alison Laing Poses While Painting

     
    Collection: Alison Laing's Photographs
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1956 to circa 1963
    Topics: Crossdressers, Paintbrushes, Painting, Palettes
    Subject: Alison Laing
    Description: Alison Laing sits with a palette of paint
  2. Alison Laing Poses While Painting (Close Up)

     
    Collection: Alison Laing's Photographs
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1956 to circa 1963
    Topics: Crossdressers, Paintbrushes, Painting
    Subject: Alison Laing
    Description: Alison Laing poses with a paint brush
  3. Alison Laing Renaissance Name Tag

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics:  
    Subject: Alison Laing, Renaissance News
    Description: Rectangular pin with a picture of Mona Lisa with the words "Renaissance" and "Alison" and a pin of the Liberty Bell attached with a red ribbon. This may have been a name tag from a Renaissance even...
  4. Alison Laing Sits on Cannon

     
    Collection: Alison Laing's Photographs
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 1956
    Topics: Crossdressers, Ordnance, Recreation areas
    Subject: Alison Laing, Lunette
    Description: Alison Laing poses for a photo, sitting on a cannon at what could be a historical site. A sign next to the cannon reads LUNETTE
  5. Alison Laing Standing in Open Space

     
    Collection: Alison Laing's Photographs
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 1959
    Topics: Crossdressers, Recreation areas
    Subject: Alison Laing
    Description: Alison Laing poses for a photo outside in what may be a field
  6. American Youth Encounters Trouble in Seeking Change of Sex in Denmark

     
    Collection: Charlotte McLeod Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Portland Oregonian
    Date: Feb. 25, 1954
    Topics: Army, Baptist church, Family members, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs
    Subject: Charles McLeod, Charlotte McLeod, Christine Jorgensen
    Description: Clipping of same article found in the Richmond Times Dispatch; link below.
  7. America's Foremost Female Impersonators

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 15, 1953
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens, Night life
    Subject: Lee Leonard, Robin Raye
  8. America's Foremost Female Impersonators

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 18, 1954
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens
    Subject: Lee Leonard, Robin Raye
  9. America's Most Unusual Night Club Finocchio's

     
    Collection: Drag Show Programs
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Finocchio, Marjorie, Finocchio, Joseph
    Date: circa 1950
    Topics: Dancers, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Striptease
    Subject: Del Le Roy, Frank Doran, Freddie Renault, Jackie Maye, John Lonas, Johnny Mangum, Karyl Norman, Li-Kar, Milton La Maire, Niles Marsh, Ray Francis
  10. An actor in drag, performing on stage at the Windmill Theatre. Photograph by Mme Yvonne, 194-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1940 to 1949?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  11. An actor in drag, performing on stage. Photograph by Mme Yvonne, 194-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1940 to 1949?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  12. An actor in drag. Photograph, 194-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1940 to 1949?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  13. An actor in drag, posing for a portrait. Photograph by Mme Yvonne, 194-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1940 to 1949?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: The actor in drag wears a low cut dress and sparkling earrings; with dark hair and a sparkly choker
  14. An actor in drag, posing for a portrait. Photograph by Mme Yvonne, 194-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1940 to 1949?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  15. An actor in drag, posing for a portrait. Photograph by Mme Yvonne, 194-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1940 to 1949?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Apparently dressed as a comic working-class woman, he wears a long skirt and a coat, and holds a (dog-shaped?) bag on stage. The bag has polka dots which match his top