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  1. Robbie Ross in a Jewel Box Revue Production

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1956
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography, Theatre shows
    Subject: Jewel Box Revue, Robbie Ross
  2. Series of Photos of Jackie Jackson Getting Ready

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography
    Subject: Jackie Jackson
  3. Series of Photos of Jackie Jackson Performing

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography
    Subject: Jackie Jackson
  4. Sunday Punch at Camp Polk

     
    Collection: ONE Archives Online Materials
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1951
    Topics: Army, Crossdressing, Performance art
    Description: A "Sunday Punch" performance at Service Club #1 at Camp Polk, Louisianna. The event was played to a capacity crowd of "nearly 800 enthusiastic serviemen." Edgar Sandifer is second from the left. 1951.
  5. Swish or Swim

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Vest, D. B.
    Date: Jan. 1, 1959
    Topics: Camp (Gay culture), Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender bending, Intersex
  6. tangents (10/1/1959)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: McIntire, Dal
    Date: Oct. 1, 1959
    Topics: Christianity, Colonialism, Crossdressing, Homosexuality, Native american studies, Native americans, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Gilgamesh Epic, Omer C. Stewart, University of Colorado
    Description: Discussion of the berdache ("two spirit people") starts on page 16 of the object.
  7. The Homophile in Search of a Historical Context and Cultural Contiguity

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Hay, Henry
    Date: Aug. 1957
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Homosexuality, Psychiatry
  8. The Incomparable Mr. Harvey Lee

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1956
    Topics: Autographs, Crossdressing, Entertainers, Female impersonators
    Subject: Harvey Lee
    Description: Center photo from 1945; upper left, 1936; upper right, 1945; lower left, 1946; lower right, 1956. This object has an autographed inscription from Harvey Lee.
  9. The Peking Opera

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1956
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Operas, Chinese
    Subject: Mei Lanfang
    Description: A pamphlet published as a supplement to the 1956 issue of "China Reconstructs." The issue discusses female impersonation and includes photographs of female impersonators.
  10. The [slur] and Theories of Sexual Inversion

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Legg, W. Dorr
    Date: Spring 1959
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender role, Native americans, Polygamy, Sexuality, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: David Thompson, George Catlin, John Tanner, Male and Female, Margaret Mead, Peter Martyr, Pietro Martire D'Anghiera, Saulteurs
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to racist and transphobic language.
  11. The Third Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Duckett, Alfred
    Date: Mar. 2, 1957
    Topics: Crossdressing, Marriage, Musicians, Theatre
    Subject: Gladys Bentley
  12. The Wonder Club Postcard

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1948
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators
    Subject: Marie Cummins, The Wonder Club
    Description: A postcard featuring an image of the members of the Wonder Club as well as a hand-written message to Marie Cummins.
  13. Transvestism and Transsexualism

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Benjamin, Henry
    Date: Autumn 1958
    Topics: Crossdressing, Essentialism, Gender realignment surgery, Genetics, Hormone therapy, Law, Medicalisation, MtFs, Psychoanalysis, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Havelock Ellis
  14. Two men dressed in drag arrested

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
    Creator:
    Date: May 14, 1946
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Imprisonment, Police stations
    Subject: Francis J. Socwell, Franke Goode
    Description: A couple of 'girls' who landed behind bars.
  15. Two Performers on Stage Looking at a Photograph

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan
    Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: Two performers sit on stage looking at what appears to be a framed photograph. This photograph may include Private First Class Samuel Cohen.