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  1. Unknown Dead Man in Woman's Clothes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 10, 1907
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Death and dying
  2. Unsolved Mystery. The Strange Case of George Green in Ettrick

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 23, 1902
    Topics: Crossdressing, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: George Green, John Biddles, Mary Green
  3. Vaudeville Houses.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 7, 1909
    Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art
    Subject: Julian Eltinge, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The Fulton
    Description: A clipping from "The Brooklyn Daily Eagle" titled: "Vaudeville Houses," detailing an upcoming performance by Julian Eltinge. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  4. Vaudeville–Monday and Tuesday

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 30, 1918
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Minstrel shows, Vaudeville
    Subject: Andrew Tribble
    Description: An advertisement in The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram for a performance by Andrew Tribble, a Black female impersonator.
  5. WANTS TO WEAR MALE ATTIRE

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 31, 1913
    Topics: Clothing, Detention of LGBTQ+ people, Women's movement
    Subject: Catherine Clarke, Elizabeth Trondle, Raymond Street Jail, The Baltimore Sun, Woodrow Wilson
    Description: A clipping from "The Baltimore Sun" titled: "WANTS TO WEAR MALE ATTIRE." Detailing Elizabeth Trondle's arrest for wearing men's clothing and her letter to President Wilson asking for her release. T...
  6. Was a "Man" for Eight Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1909
    Topics: Black people, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Transmasculine people
    Subject: James Allen, Maude Allen
    Description: Article in the Cleveland Gazette about a Black woman who chose to pass as a man to avoid gender discrimination in the workforce.
  7. Was A Russian Spy

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 22, 1906
    Topics: FtMs, Marriage
    Subject: Baron von Schlippenbach, Isaac Lipschitz, Nicolai De Raylan
    Description: Evening Star (Washington, DC)
  8. Was Ellis Glenn Her Twin Brother

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 31, 1905
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing, Families, Prisons
    Subject: Ellis Glenn
    Description: The Fairmont West Virginian (Fairmont, WV)
  9. Was Queer Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 31, 1901
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing, Lawyers, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Elbert B. Glenn, Ellis Glenn
  10. Wears Man's Attire in Order to Earn Living

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 30, 1908
    Topics: Children, Crossdressing, FtMs, Immigration, Labour, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Frank Woodhull, Mary Johnson
    Description: The Mitchell Capital (Mitchell, SD)
  11. Wedding Recalls Mystery

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 6, 1903
    Topics: Adoption, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Families, Farmers, FtMs, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Alice Howard, Edith Dyer Howard, George Richmond, William C. Howard
  12. When Women Pirates Were Abroad

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Boston Post
    Date: Jul. 25, 1906
    Topics: Books, Crossdressing, Historical periods, Imprisonment, Maritime occupations, Marriage, Military, Passing (Gender), Pirates
    Subject: Anne Bonny, Mary Read
    Description: The Star (Reynoldsville, PA)
  13. Whites Also Like Show.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Walton, Lester A.
    Date: Sep. 28, 1911
    Topics: Black people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Minstrel shows
    Subject: Augustus Stevens, Down in Dixie, Williams and Stevens
    Description: Article in The New York Age featuring a Arkansas Democratic review of the success of "Down in Dixie," a show featuring Augustus Stevens, a Black female impersonator.
  14. Why Wearing Skirts Makes a Man Effeminate

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Lough, James E.
    Date: Jan. 9, 1916
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Masculinities, Psychology, Students, Theatre
    Subject: Brown Rolston, Frederick S. Jones, James E. Lough, Leroy K. Howe
  15. Williams and Stevens

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1902
    Topics: Black people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Augustus Stevens, Dancer, Williams and Stevens
    Description: Article in The Freeman about Augustus Stevens, a Black female impersonator, and his comedy partner, Chas Williams.