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  1. Three actors, one in drag, posing in a tableau. Process print, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Collection
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  2. Three actors perform on stage. Photographic postcard, 1928.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Collection
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1928
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  3. Three actors performing at a prisoner of war camp in Münster. Photographic postcard, ca. 1916.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Collection
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1916
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: A character in drag is pleading with (possibly?) her father, whilst being restrained by the other man in drag (the mother?), within domestic scenery. A melodrama being played out on the well-improv...
  4. Three actors, two in drag, posing in cowboy costumes. Photographic postcard, 1911.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Collection
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1911
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  5. Three Chinese Get In

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1889
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Subject: Asian people, Chinese People, City of Alexandria (steamship), Fong, Chu, Yi, Chin
    Description: A newspaper article from the New York Herald detailing the arrest of a Chinese female impersonator.
  6. Three men, one in drag, acting out a scene. Photograph, 189-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Collection
    Creator:
    Date: 1890 to 1899?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: Victorian album.
  7. Three men performing a scene from a play. Photographic postcard. 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Collection
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: One of the performers is in drag, one is a clown and the other is dressed in evening wear. French or Belgian, World War I period. Pierrot pleads with Columbine. This well-decorated set has been ere...
  8. Three musicians, one in drag, in bizarre masks for an "Olympia" masked ball. Photographic postcard by Brincker, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Collection
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  9. Three sailors, two in drag wearing pierrette costumes, pose on deck. Photographic postcard, 191-.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Collection
    Creator:
    Date: 1910 to 1919?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Sailors left and right in drag as Pierrettes in costumes based on Pelissier's Follies. The man in the centre is wearing a large false moustache
  10. Three sailors with arms round each other. Photographic postcard, 1917.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Collection
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1917
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Three sailors, the man in the centre is in drag. A Christmas party on board HMS Royal Oak, soon after she went into service at the Battle of Jutland (31 May and 1 June 1916). The ship was sunk afte...
  11. Three soldiers, two in drag, pose in costume. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Collection
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1, 1920
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: A soldier in drag dressed as a lady is seated in the centre, with (left) a man in white tuxedo and (right) a man in drag dressed as a maid. There are glimpses of others in the background. Army Camp...
  12. Ticket to Baton Show Lounge

     
    Collection: Felicia Elizondo/Felicia Flames Collection
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1969 to circa 1980
    Topics: Drag bars, Drag performers, Drag shows, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ artists, LGBTQ+ events
    Subject: Baton Show Lounge, Rich Saundrs
    Description: Ticket to the Baton Show Lounge, with business name and address on the front of the card and "Rich Saundrs" handwritten on the back. This item comes from the Felicia “Flames” Elizondo papers (#2...
  13. Tiki Carpenter in drag as "The dancing Australian". Photographic postcard, ca. 1927.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Collection
    Creator:
    Date: 1900 to circa 1927?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  14. To be, or...?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Pittsburgh Courier
    Date: Sep. 22, 1943
    Topics: Drag queens, Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Gladys Bentley, Toni Stuyvesant
  15. Tobi Marsh and Unidentified People Perform in the Frisco Follies

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to 1969
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography, Theatre shows
    Subject: Frisco Follies, Tobi Marsh