Cross dressing and female impersonation photo archive documenting gender masquerade in postcard portraiture, club entertainment, and informal social photography from the early twentieth century through 1939, with direct relevance to LGBTQ+ visual history and the history of gendered dress outside ordinary convention. Seventeen photographs by unidentified amateur and studio photographers.....
[Women’s History] [Gender and Sexuality] [Photography] Cartwright, Margaret. Photograph album, circa 1914 to 1923 documents female youth culture, wartime social life, and gender nonconforming expression in Albion, Michigan during the World War I era. The album records a network of young women associated with local school and community institutions and.....
[Drag and Cross-Dressing] Vernacular cross-dressing photo archive spanning from the 1860s to 1940s, and chronicling decades of cross-dressing in portraits, theatrics, and candid self expression, with direct relevance to LGBTQ+ visual history and the history of gendered fashion in everyday life. The archive preserves images of women posing in men's.....
Little, Jay; James, Antony; Sanderson, Loren. Pulp paperbacks published between 1965 and 1977 document early mass market representations of transgender identity, cross dressing, and gender nonconformity at a time when such subjects were largely absent from mainstream publishing. These works present narrative and anecdotal accounts of gender variance through fiction.....
[Cross-Dressing] [LGBTQ] Gender nonconforming performance and dress photo and letter archive in mid twentieth century America during a period when public expressions of gender variance were widely stigmatized and frequently criminalized. Including two identified drag performers in a personal letter and photo negative set. This collection captures individuals embracing gender.....
[Cross dressing] [Japan] [Kabuki] Japanese Kabuki onnagata postcard archive, early 20th century, documents male actors performing female roles in the Kabuki performances, a practice formalized following the prohibition of women on stage and sustained through highly disciplined traditions of gesture, costume, and voice. The archive provides direct visual evidence of.....
Brewster, Lee G. (ed.). Drag: A Magazine About the Transvestite. These periodicals document the organization, representation, and internal discourse of transvestite and drag communities in the United States during the early 1970s, a period of expanding visibility following the emergence of gay liberation movements. Published between 1972 and 1975, Drag.....
Engstrand, Stuart and Lafayette, Richard/Rachel archive documents early literary and quasi-autobiographical treatments of cross-dressing and transgender identity in American and translated pulp publishing between 1950 and 1968, when gender variance was framed through psychological, medical, and moral discourse. Produced during a period of heightened scrutiny of sexuality and identity under.....
