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  1. A Masquerading Musketeer

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 26, 1884
    Topics: Crossdressing, Desertion, Military, Infection, Military, Soldiers, Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Franklin Thompson, William R. Morse
    Description: Watertown Republican (Watertown, WI)
  2. A Photograph of Person Wearing A Dress

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1885
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Portrait photography
    Description: A photograph of a person (given the time likely a performer) posing in a photography studio wearing a dress.
  3. Annie Hindle Drawing

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1880 to 1889
    Topics: Drawings
    Subject: Annie Hindle, Male impersonators
  4. Dr. Harry Benjamin lecture, undated

     
    Collection: ONE Archives Online Materials
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Benjamin, Harry
    Date: 1885 to 1986
    Topics: Endocrinology, Gender realignment surgery, Lectures, Transgender people
    Subject: Harry Benjamin, Society for the Scientific Study of Sex
    Description: Dr. Harry Benjamin lecture on transsexual surgery at Society for the Scientific Study of Sex meeting, undated.
  5. Edwards St. Stephen

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1850 to 1910
    Topics: Gender expression, Gender identity
  6. Eight People in Suits

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1850 to 1910
    Topics: Female masculinity, Gender expression
  7. Ella Wesner Postcard

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Sarony, Napoleon
    Date: circa 1870 to circa 1900
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Male impersonators
    Subject: Ella Wesner
    Description: A postcard of Ella Wesner in men's formal attire holding a top hat.
  8. Fifteen Years in Man's Attire.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 17, 1885
    Topics: Appearance, Businesses, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Frank Gray
  9. Five People in Suits

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1850 to 1910
    Topics: Female masculinity, Gender expression
  10. 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.
  11. "Franklin Thompson's" Career

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Washington Cor. Detroit Free Press
    Date: Mar. 7, 1884
    Topics: Appearance, Conduct of court proceedings, Military, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Colonel Dillmann, Company F. Second Regiment Michigan Infantry, Franklin Thompson, Nurse and Spy, Orlando M. Poe, Sarah E. E. Seeley
    Description: Iowa County Democrat (Mineral Point, Wisconsin)
  12. "Franklin Thompson's" Career

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 7, 1884
    Topics: Crossdressing, Families, Government, Hospitals, Politics, Soldiers, Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Franklin Thompson, Orlando M. Poe, Sarah E. E. Seeley
    Description: Iowa County Democrat (Mineral Point, WI)
  13. Fredonia Times

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Fredonia Times
    Date: Oct. 16, 1884
    Topics: Civil wars, Crossdressing, Desertion, Military, FtMs, LGBTQ+ partners, Military, Military leaves and furloughs, Soldiers, Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Franklin Thompson, Sarah E. Seelye
    Description: Phillipsburg Herald (Phillipsburg, KS)
  14. 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.
  15. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior

     
    Collection: Government Documents
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: 48th Congress, 2nd Session
    Date: 1885
    Topics: BIPOC, Indian agents, Indigenous LGBTQ+ people, Indigenous transgender people, LGBTQ+ people of color, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Crow Reservation, Finds-them-and-kills-them, Osh-Tisch
    Description: Letter from the secretary of interior leasing Crow land. It names Finds-them-and-kills-them, Osh-Tisch, who was an Indigenous trans person.