Digital Transgender Archive

Search Results

Search Constraints

You searched for: Collection Transas City Photographs (1950-2000) Remove constraint Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000) Topic Transsexual people Remove constraint Topic: Transsexual people

Search Results

  1. Roberta Cowell and Lisa Morrell in Nice (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Lisa Morrell, Picture Post, Roberta Cowell
    Description: From the Transas City Website: "Roberta Cowell in Nice, 1954, looking at her cover article on Picture Post. From the back of the photograph: ME ON THE COVER. ' Picture Post, with my story in ...
  2. Roberta Cowell at the Louvre in Paris, Viewing the Venus de Milo (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell, Venus de Milo
    Description: The following description was taken from the Getty Images website: "Transsexual Roberta Cowell, formerly Robert Cowell admires the Venus de Milo in the Louvre during a visit to Paris. Roberta was...
  3. Roberta Cowell Driving Car (April 1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 1954
    Topics: Automobile driving, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  4. Roberta Cowell in France (March 1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Loneliness, MtFs, Restaurants, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: According to Transas City the following is found on the back of the photograph: “…sometimes I felt lonely…” Dated Wednesday, 17 March, 1954.
  5. Roberta Cowell in French Streetcar (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1954
    Topics: Cable cars (Streetcars), MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  6. Roberta Cowell in Pisa, Italy (April 22, 1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Cameras, Leaning Tower (Pisa, Italy), MtFs, Photography, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: According to Transas City, the following appears on the back of the photograph: "Risking recognition, Roberta interrupts her escape to take pictures at Pisa."
  7. Roberta Cowell in the Kitchen

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1945 to 1957
    Topics: Cooking, Kitchens, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Women biographers
    Subject: Picture Post, Roberta Cowell
    Description: Below the photo the following quote appears: "'Cooking was unexpectedly exciting.'"
  8. Roberta Cowell in Villefranche (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Gardens--France, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: According to Transas City the following is found on the back of the photograph: “The March sun was warm, and the roses were already in bloom, and no one knew me.”
  9. Roberta Cowell Outside Night Club in Nice (1954)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Nightclubs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  10. Roberta Cowell Standing in Crowd

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: Description of the photo on the Getty Images site: "Transsexual Roberta Cowell, formerly Robert Cowell visits Paris with a friend. Roberta was once a Spitfire pilot, prisoner-of-war, racing mot...
  11. Roberta Cowell with Race Car (May 4, 1972)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: May 4, 1972
    Topics: Motorsports, MtFs, Racing, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
    Description: According to Transas City, the back of the photograph has the following text: "ROBERTA COWELL GETS READY FOR CAR-RACE COMEBACK. May 4, 1972. Silverstone, Northants, Thursday, PA: Roberta Cowell,...
  12. Tamara Rees Backstage at Los Angeles' Club Oasis with Elaine Cayon (November 10, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Douglas, Bob
    Date: Nov. 10, 1955
    Topics: Dancers, MtFs, Strippers, Transsexual people
    Subject: Club Oasis, Elaine Cayon, Tamara Rees
    Description: The following text appears at the bottom of the object: "Leg Check: Embarked on a career as a night club strip teaser after undergoing a sex transformation operation in Denmark, an ex-GI billed...
  13. Tamara Rees Poses on Burlesque Stage with Husband, J.E. Courtland, III (July 29, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 29, 1955
    Topics: MtFs, Partners of transgender people, Theater, Transsexual people
    Subject: J.E. Courtland, Tamara Rees
    Description: The following text appears at the bottom of the object: "WILL LECTURE- Tamara Rees, paratrooper turned 'woman' by sex surgery, poses on the stage of a burlesque theater in Los Angeles with her ...
  14. Tamara Rees Posing in Doorway (1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1955
    Topics: Autobiography, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: Tamara Edel Rees
    Description: This image is the frontispiece to Tamara Rees's autobiography “Reborn.”
  15. Tamara Rees Vacuuming at Home (July 28, 1955)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press International
    Date: Jul. 28, 1955
    Topics: LGBTQ+ newspapers, Marriage, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: J.E. Courtland, Robert Egan Rees, Tamara Edel Rees
    Description: Along the side of the photo appears the following text, on a separate sheet of paper: "BCP3-7/28-SACRAMENTO: Tamara Edel Rees Sweeps clean and starts life anew. She claims she was transformed fr...