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  1. Correspondence Requesting Manufacture of Patented Hairbrush

     
    Collection: Alexis Francois Collection
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Universal Invention Sales
    Date: Apr. 3, 1959
    Topics: Genderfluid people, Hair, Inventions, Manufacturing industries
    Subject: Alexis Francois
    Description: Correspondence sent by Universal Invention Sales to various hairbrush manufacturing factories across the United States to request manufacture of Alexis Francois' patented hairbrush.

  2. Floor Show With Bobby LaMarr

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 11, 1950
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators
    Subject: Bobby LaMarr, Chanticler Club

  3. I Live in Two Worlds.....: This top female impersonator sets the public right about its idea of his profession.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Black, Phil
    Date: Oct. 1953
    Topics: African Americans, Female impersonators
    Description: In his article from "Our World", Phil Black details his rise as a black female impersonator in a historically white profession, including details of his private life, achievements, and ambitions. H...

  4. Male Shake Dancer Plans to Change Sex, Wed GI in Europe

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Jet
    Date: Jun. 18, 1953
    Topics: Actors, Black people, Classification of diseases, Dancers, Female impersonators, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Law, Marriage, Medicalisation, Military, MtFs
    Subject: Charles Robert Brown

  5. Posing in feminine dress

     
    Collection: ONE Archives Online Materials
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1957
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Gender expression
    Description: This photograph was part of a set that was deemed inappropriate by a photo shop in Philadelphia and never returned to the customer.

  6. Rudy Presents: Eddie Lee's Glamour Boys

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 31, 1954
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens
    Subject: Eddie Lee, Joe Dare, LaVerne Cummings, Rudy's Blue Star, Tod Allen