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  1. A Discovery

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Evening Star
    Date: Aug. 13, 1836
    Topics: Crossdressers, Gender role, LGBTQ+ relationships
    Subject: James Walker
  2. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 16, 1842
    Topics: Crimes, Law, Marriage
  3. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 1836
    Topics: Appearance, Crimes, Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ lovers, Police officers, Secrecy
    Subject: James Walker
  4. An Amalgamationist in Limbo for the Second Time

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 9, 1842
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Peter Sewally
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to the use of racist language.
  5. Caught Again

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Newark Daily Advertiser
    Date: Aug. 25, 1846
    Topics: Appearance, Black people, Clothing, Crossdressing
    Subject: Peter Sewally
  6. Escape of a Murderer

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 17, 1846
    Topics: Crimes, Crossdressing, Prisoners
  7. Extraordinary Cause of a Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 1, 1836
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, FtMs, LGBTQ+ partners, Marriage, Passing (Gender), Prisoners
    Subject: Eliza Cummings, George Moore Wilson, James Walker, Jane Walker
    Description: The North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, North Carolina)
  8. Facts Connected with the Life of James Carey

     
    Collection: Academic Papers and Publications
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Akin, James
    Date: 1839
    Topics: Intersex, Medicalization
    Subject: James Carey, University of Pennsylvania
    Description: Content warning: This item includes extremely dehumanizing language and visual depictions of intersex people and bodies. This item documents a post-mortem investigation of intersex person James ...
  9. Fanny Campbell The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The Revolution

     
    Collection: Dime Novels
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Lieutenant Murray
    Date: 1846
    Topics: Body image, Chivalry, Colonies, Colonization, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discovery and exploration, Femininities, Gender bending, Indians of North America, LGBTQ+ relationships, Pirates, Prisoners, Sailing, Sailing ships, Sailors, Ship captains, Ship models, Women
    Subject: Fanny Campbell, Jack Herbert, Terrence Mooney, William Lovell
  10. Grandfather Brown (William) at a masquerade party

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Critcherson, G.P.
    Date: 1800 to 1899
    Topics: African Americans, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Crossdressing, Femininities, LGBTQ+ people of color, Masquerades
    Description: William Brown, a wealthy Black businessman in Worcester, MA in the 19th century, wearing a dress. Part of the Brown Family Papers Collection, call number Mss. Boxes B.
  11. Illustration of Mary Jones (1836)

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: H.R. Robinson
    Date: 1836
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Crossdressing
    Subject: Mary Jones, Peter Sewally
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains racist and transphobic imagery. Text at the bottom reads: "The Man-Monster, Peter Sewally, alias Mary Jones, &c&c Sentenced 18th June 1836 to 5 years im...
  12. Jewesses on a Frolic

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1845
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Judaism, Masculinities
  13. Peter Sewally, alias Ann Eliza Erans, alias Beef Steak Pete

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 24, 1846
    Topics: Arrests, Black people, Crossdressers
    Subject: Beefsteak Pete
    Description: Content warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to racist and transphobic language.