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  1. Footlight Flickerings.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1885
    Topics: LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Performance art
    Subject: Ella Wesner, Indianapolis Sporting Life
    Description: A clipping from "Indianapolis Sporting Life" titled: "Footlight Flickerings," discussing the closure of Ella Wesner's co. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.
  2. He Wants to Be She: Inmate Creates Stir Over Sex Change Bid

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Whitney, David
    Date: Jan. 6, 1980
    Topics: Fear of death, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Hormone therapy, Law, Prisoners, Psychotherapy, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Daniel E. Diiaconi, Hoyt Cupp, Johns Hopkins University, Linda Hughes, Marion Watters, Wesley Weissert
  3. In Male Attire: Remarkable Career of a Female Who Passed for a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Terra Haute Gazette
    Date: Sep. 20, 1875
    Topics: Androgyny, Arrests, Dance, Female impersonators, Law, Minstrel shows, Music, Police, Theatre, Theatre groups
    Subject: Ella Seigen, John Johnson, St. Leon
  4. Inmate's Isolation Finally Put to End

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Lengel, Allan
    Date: Mar. 27, 1980
    Topics: Prisoners, Prisons, Transsexual people
    Subject: John Haub, Robert William Thomas, Wayne Baker
  5. Insensitive Act

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Borbe, Donald C.
    Date: Jan. 13, 1980
    Topics: Crimes, Discrimination, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: Linda Hughes
  6. Mabel G. Johnson

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1901
    Topics: Black people, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators
    Subject: Mabel G. Johnson, Ragtime, Songstress
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to racist language.
  7. Mrs. E. E. Seeyle the Female Soldier

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Fredonia Times
    Date: Oct. 16, 1884
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Combat, Passing (Gender), Soldiers
    Subject: Battle of Bull Run, Company F. Second Regiment Michigan Infantry, E. E. Seelye, Franklin Thompson, Sanitary Commission
    Description: Phillpsburg Herald (Phillipsburg, Kansas)
  8. Surgery, Drugs Alter Man's Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Sullivan, Ann
    Date: Oct. 3, 1965
    Topics: Biology, Christianity, Discrimination, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intersex, MtFs, Physicians, Prisoners, Prisons, Psychiatrists, Self-acceptance, Stress
  9. The Sentinel

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 19, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Chain gangs, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.