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  1. A black chevalier...

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Evening Star
    Date: Jul. 28, 1870
    Topics: Black people, Crossdressing
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Lizzie
    Description: Evening Star (Washington, DC)
  2. Crossdressing in London and Texas

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 27, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Black people, Clothing, Crossdressing, Slavery
    Subject: Dick Montgomery
    Description: Nashville Union and American (Nashville, Tennessee)
  3. Matinee Christmas Day

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 18, 1872
    Topics: Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Neil Burgess
  4. Memphis Appeal

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 18, 1870
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Clipping published in the Memphis Daily Appeal
  5. NEW YORK, October 17th.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 19, 1872
    Topics: LGBTQ+ actors, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Performance art
    Subject: Ella Wesner, Everret House, Josie Mansfield
    Description: A clipping from "Marysville Daily Appeal" titled: "NEW YORK, October 17th," discussing Ella Wesner and Josie Mansfield's trip to Europe. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  6. RUMORED ELOPEMENT OF A HOTEL-KEEPER WITH ELLA WESNER.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 18, 1872
    Topics: LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Performance art
    Subject: Ella Wesner, Josie Mansfield
    Description: A clipping from "Chicago Tribune" titled: "RUMORED ELOPEMENT OF A HOTEL-KEEPER WITH ELLA WESNER," discussing the relationships of Ella Wesner. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  7. The Masqueraders.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: English Lord and American Consul
    Date: Jul. 5, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Navy, Sodomy laws
    Subject: Arthur Pelham Clinton, C. H. Thomas, Edward I, Edward XIX, George II, John S. Fisk, Louis Charles Hurt, Martin Luther Cumming, New York World, William Summerville
  8. The Vodoo Profession

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 19, 1873
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Voodoo
    Description: An article in the Public Ledger that talks about the case of the State vs. Frances Thompson involving Voodoo.
  9. Theatre Comique: Ernest Byne

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 29, 1874
    Topics: Actors, Female impersonators, Femininities, Theatre
    Subject: Ernest Byne, Gerard Byne, Josh Hart
    Description: The New York Herald (New York, New York)