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  1. Allen's Minstrels

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Jenkins, P.L.
    Date: 1909
    Topics: Black people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Minstrel shows
    Subject: Allen's Minstrels, C. Adam LaRose, Musician, Salome Dance
    Description: Article in The Freeman discussing C. Adam LaRose, a Black female impersonator and musician.

  2. "Black Jenny Lind."

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1909
    Topics: Black people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: J. Robert Johnson
    Description: Article in the Richmond Planet advertising event featuring Black female impersonator.

  3. Concerts To-Day

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 14, 1909
    Topics: Concerts, Crossdressers, Drag queens
    Subject: Claire Romaine, Neil Burgess & Co., The County Fair

  4. Girl Long Posed As A Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 15, 1909
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressers, Gender role, Masculinities
    Subject: James Davis, Mabel Davis

  5. Julian Eltinge

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 15, 1909
    Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art
    Subject: Julian Eltinge, The Fulton
    Description: A clipping from "Brooklyn Life" titled: "Julian Eltinge," detailing the upcoming performance of Julian Eltinge. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.

  6. Montauk.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 5, 1909
    Topics:  
    Subject: 100 Honey Boys, Cohan and Harris Minstrels, Earl Benham, Eddie Leonard, Forty Count Em', Frank Morrell, George Evans, George M. Cohan, George Primrose, J.H Harverly, John King, Julian Eltinge, Matt Keefe, The Belle of the Barber's Ball, Watterbury Brothers and Tenney and Rice and Provost
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to anti-Black racism. Clipping from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle talking about a minstrel show.

  7. The Women Pirates of America

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Spillane, R.
    Date: Nov. 14, 1909
    Topics: Crimes, Crossdressing, Gender segregation in labour, Pirates
    Subject: Anne Bonny, Mary Reed
    Description: The Sunday Star (Washington, D.C.)

  8. The Women Pirates of America

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Spillane, R.
    Date: Nov. 14, 1909
    Topics: Crimes, Crossdressing, Femininities, Masculinities, Pirates
    Subject: Anne Bonny, John Rackam, Mary Reed

  9. Two Female Buccaneers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 14, 1909
    Topics: Crossdressing, Imprisonment, Marriage, Pirates, Right to vote, Soldiers
    Subject: Ann Bonny, Mary Read

  10. Vaudeville Houses.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 7, 1909
    Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art
    Subject: Julian Eltinge, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The Fulton
    Description: A clipping from "The Brooklyn Daily Eagle" titled: "Vaudeville Houses," detailing an upcoming performance by Julian Eltinge. This item was contributed to the DTA by Hugh Ryan.

  11. Was a "Man" for Eight Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1909
    Topics: Black people, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Transmasculine people
    Subject: James Allen, Maude Allen
    Description: Article in the Cleveland Gazette about a Black woman who chose to pass as a man to avoid gender discrimination in the workforce.