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[New Bijou Theatre]
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: 1900 Topics: Black people, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators Subject: Florence Hines Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to racist language. -
New York City
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: 1915 Topics: Black people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Vaudeville Subject: Augustus Stevens, Julian Eltinge Description: Article in The Freeman about Augustus Stevens, a Black female impersonator. -
New York Deserted
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Jul. 6, 1889 Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater Subject: Asian people, Chinese People, Taka Wing Description: A clipping from The Evening Star mentioning Taka Wing, a Chinese female impersonator. -
NEW YORK, October 17th.
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Oct. 19, 1872 Topics: LGBTQ+ actors, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Performance art Subject: Ella Wesner, Everret House, Josie Mansfield Description: A clipping from "Marysville Daily Appeal" titled: "NEW YORK, October 17th," discussing Ella Wesner and Josie Mansfield's trip to Europe. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan. -
New York's Favorite Slumming Expedition
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Feb. 12, 1899 Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater Subject: Asian people, Chinese People, Choy Ting Quoy, Fon Chong Mai Description: Article published in the Colorado Springs Gazette about Fon Chong Mai, a Chinese actor and female impersonator; includes illustrations. -
News of the Theatres
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: The Sun Date: Aug. 7, 1892 Topics: BIPOC, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Seneca Indians Subject: Gowongo Mohawk Description: A clipping from The Sun sharing various theater news stories, including Gowongo Mohawk's upcoming performance tour in England. -
Nick Arthur in a dress, in a Garden of Allah souvenir folder, autographed "Mickey"
Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection Institution: University of Washington Libraries Creator: Date: 1949 Topics: Butches, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ theater Subject: Mickey Baasch, Nick Arthur Description: Photograph of Nick Arthur standing in a long black dress with white polka dots and ruffled trim, earrings, and a delicate cross necklace, holding a white flower. The photograph is faintly autograph... -
No Japanese Actresses
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: 1895 Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater Subject: Asian people, Danjuro, Ichikawa Danjuro, Japanese Actor, Japanese People Description: A Omaha World-Herald newspaper article about a Japanese actor and female impersonator, Ichikawa Danjuro. -
North Morgantown
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Dec. 6, 1899 Topics: BIPOC, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Native American LGBTQ+ people, Seneca Indians Subject: Gowongo Mohawk, The Indian Mail Carrier (Play) Description: Praise for American Indian Actress Go-Woo-Go Mohawk in her play Wep-Ton-No-Mah, The Indian Mail Carrier. Published in the newspaper Daily New Dominion. -
Notes from A.G. Allen's Minstrels:--
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Woodbine Date: 1902 Topics: Black people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Minstrel shows Subject: A. G. Allen's Minstrels, Augustus Stevens Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to racist language. -
Notes from the Domino Theatre Fernandina Fla--
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Woodbine Date: 1902 Topics: Black people, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Minstrel shows Subject: Domino Theatre, Jessie Thomas Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to racist language. -
O teatro é uma arte guei?
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Oasis: Entrée to Eden (FEAST 3) invitation
Collection: Ephemera Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: Alan, Terrance Date: 1999 Topics: LGBTQ+ theater, Sadomasochism Description: An invitation to Oasis: Entrée to Eden, the third in the FEAST series of queer S&M, drag, and cabaret events. Along with various live performances, a bondage film is to be shot at the event, and at... -
Oh, What a Drag! The Life and Career of Wacky Jackie Phillips, Finnochio's Riotous Redhead
Collection: Rare Books Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: Dewsnap, James Date: 1994 Topics: Celebrities, Clothing, Comedians, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), Drag performers, Drag queens, Drag shows, Female impersonators, Gender roles, Homosexuality, Jails, LGBTQ+ people who use substances, LGBTQ+ spiritual people, LGBTQ+ theater, LGBTQ+ youth, Passing (Gender), Queens (Gay culture), Traffic accident victims Subject: Beige Room, Bobby Lane, Bobby Raye, Carroll Wallace, Cleo Stafford, Colonial Club, Elton Paris, Finocchio's Club, Flash Gordon, Halloween, Jack Long, Jackie Phillips, Jean Barrios, Jean LaMar, Kara Montez, Kitty Carlisle Hart, LaVerne Cummings, Les Lee, Lonnie Harper, Mardi Gras, Poppy Lane, Ray Saunders, Ricki San Juan, Russell Reed, Rusty Parkor, Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Hart Description: The autobiography of Jackie Phillips, longtime comedy queen at Finocchio's, as told to and ghostwritten by James Dewsnap. Book recounts Jackie's personal life and career development both pre- and p... -
‘Old letters’ regarding The Queen
Collection: The Queen (1968) Production Institution: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Creator: Allen, Lewis M., Filmfest DC, Litvinoff, Si, Robinson, Chris, Roth, Jane, Stafford, David Date: Unknown Topics: Drag pageants, Drag queens, Drag shows, LGBTQ+ cinema, LGBTQ+ films, LGBTQ+ theater, Title contests Subject: The Queen (Film) Description: Executive producer Lewis M. Allen’s files for the documentary film The Queen (1968)—a behind-the-scenes look at the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant in New York City—including registratio...