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Woman in Man's Suit

Date: 03 17 1963
Description: A woman modeling a men's suit, while holding an umbrella and wearing a top hat. She is reflected by a mirror in the background.
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1909 International Auto Wagon in Parade in Hamilton, Ontario

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Description: Two men in costumes drive an "antique" 1909 International Auto Wagon in a parade in Hamilton, Ontario. One man appears to be dressed in women's clothing an...
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Man Dressed as an Old Woman

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Description: A man dressed as an old woman, possibly as part of a role playing activity.
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Two Cross Dressing Women

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Description: Two women dressed up in men's attire, including top hats, eyeglasses, fake moustache, and canes, stand on the steps of porch of a private residence.
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Strategy or Change of Base

Date: 1865
Description: "Strategy or Change of Base". Photographic card of a cartoon concerning Jefferson Davis' flight across Georgia in women's clothing hoping to reach the Miss...
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Cartoon of the Flight of Jefferson Davis

Date: 1865
Description: Jefferson Davis in a hoop skirt with a basket and fallen dagger. Photographic card of a cartoon concerning Jefferson Davis' flight across Georgia in women...
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Capture of an Unprotected Female

Date: 1865
Description: "Capture of an unprotected female, or the close up of the Rebellion." Photograph card of a cartoon concerning Jefferson Davis' flight across Georgia in wo...
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Mazie Trumbull and Frances Trumbull, vaudeville performers.

Date: 1906
Description: Mazie Trumbull, famous as a cross-dresser and dancer, and her sister Frances, side by side in a White Studio photograph.
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Deering Works Canvas Department

Date: 1910
Description: Female factory workers stand around long tables in the canvas department at International Harvester's Deering Works Canvas Department. Canvas is piled in r...
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Dizzy Sizzlers

Date: 1950
Description: The Dizzy Sizzlers were a comedy band based in Watertown that performed throughout Wisconsin during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Fancy Dress Party

Date: 08 19 1887
Description: Cabinet card of a group portrait of four men in front of a painted backdrop. Two are dressed in male formal attire, with top hats. The other men are dresse...
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Corinne Griffith in "The Adventure Shop"

Date: 1919
Description: Phyllis Blake (played by Corinne Griffith) dressed as a man in a salt-and-pepper suit and bow tie.
Postcard

Portrait of Two Men

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length studio "gag" portrait of two men in front of a painted backdrop. The man on the right, James Gorman, is wearing work clothes, boots and hat and...
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Film Still from "Dollars and Sense"

Date: 1916
Description: Film still - exterior - depicting a young man and young woman looking at each other. The man is played by the actress playing the young woman shown in the ...
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Thwaites, Welsh, and Foster

Date: 01 30 1912
Description: Ruben Gold Thwaites, Iva Welsh, and Mary Foster dressed as "Box and Cox" and Mrs. Bouncer from the 1840's comedy Box and Cox. They are at a costume ...
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Publicity Still of Eleanor Lawson, Marguerite Clark and Helen Greene

Date: 1917
Description: Three English girls who were raised as boys, from left to right: Tommy (played by Marguerite Clark), Willie (Eleanor Lawson), and Noel (Helen Greene) in a ...
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Publicity Still of Marguerite Clark

Date: 1917
Description: Marguerite Clark is seated in a Hansom cab in a publicity still for "The Amazons." She wears a man's tailcoat with white tie, cape, and top hat.
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Agnes Vernon and William Desmond in a scene still for "Bare-Fisted Gallagher"

Date: 1919
Description: Wearing men's western clothing Jem Mason (played by Agnes Vernon) looks doubtfully at Bare Fisted Gallagher (William Desmond). She holds a Winchester repea...
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Henry Woodruff, Rhea Mitchell, and Tsuru Aoki in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beckoning Flame," the Indian colonial administrator Harry Dickson (played by Henry Woodruff) and his English ...
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Mary Miles Minter and Alan Forrest struggle in a scene still

Date: 1918
Description: Dressed in her brother's clothes, Phyllis King (played by Mary Miles Minter) struggles with Grayson Blair (Alan Forrest) in a scene still for the silent dr...

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