[Photograph collection of gender non-conforming people] [graphic].
Material type:
PicturePublication details: [United States], [ca. 1895-ca. 1947]; UNITED STATES. Description: 25 photographs : gelatin silver and albumen, some mounted on board, some postcard format ; mount or sheet 33 x 27 cm (13 x 10.5 in.) or smallerNotes: Title supplied by cataloger; Date from dates on items, content, attire of sitters, and style of stamp boxes on real photo postcards;
Photographers include Joy (probably Sherman Joy), Vicksburg, Mich. and A.F. Mason, Cedar Rapids, Ia;
Some of photographs are real postcard photographs with Azo and Velox stamp boxes;
P.2023.30.1 contains advertising text printed on verso: Absolutely Pure. The Old Reliable Sweet Caporal Cigarette Has Stood the Test of Time. More Sold Than All Other Brands Combined;
P.2023.30.5 & 5a contains ink date stamp on verso: July 21 1947;
P.2023.30.12 contains manuscript note on verso: Cross dresser!;
P.2023.30.13 contains manuscript note on verso: Bob Erickson and Linquist brothers, Mississippi;
P.2023.30.16 addressed to D-nei și D-lui Matei Dascălu Loco (Mrs. and Mr. Matei Dascălu. Loco[tenent]) and signed Lt. Dr. G. Dumitrescu. Contains manuscript note on verso: Cu dragoste o amintire pentru mătușa și unchiul meu. Translation: With love, a souvenir for my aunt and uncle. L[ocotenen]t. (i.e., lieutenant);
P.2023.30.17 addressed to the Familiei Matei Dascălu (Matei Dascălu family) and signed [Călela? Or Cătela?]. Contains manuscript note on verso: Vă ofer cu dragoste acest portret. Translation: I offer with love this portrait;
P.2023.30.19-22 contain photographer’s stamp on verso: A.F. Mason 412 So. 3rd St;
P.2023.30.19-22 contain manuscript notes with identities of sitters on verso. Identifies of all the sitters are not always referenced.Local Notes: Purchased with partial funds from the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Women's History and African American History funds.Imprint: UNITED STATES. 1895-1947.Subject(s):
- Adams, Frances Ella McMoran, 1891- -- Portraits
- Box, Iva Mae Gibbs, 1889-1971 -- Portraits
- Bosley, Lillian M. Ringsmuth, 1894-1971 -- Portraits
- Bradley, Elsie Mable Miller, 1884-1968 -- Portraits
- Cargin, Hazel Belle Mentzer, 1888-1970 -- Portraits
- Currell, Edlee May Robertson, 1891-1967 -- Portraits
- Denny, Grace Margaret, 1888-1958 -- Portraits
- Eckert, Tressa Edna Miller, 1887-1988 -- Portraits
- Erickson, Bob -- Portraits
- Geiss, Helen Watters, 1889-1933 -- Portraits
- Harlow, Richard, 1872-1920 -- Portraits
- Miller, Nina B., 1894-1971 -- Portraits
- Rawson, Mabel Eleda, 1887-1966 -- Portraits
- Stolba, Olive Vene Brady, 1891-1969 -- Portraits
- Storkey, Margaret -- Portraits
- Trinka, Belva Patton, 1885-1943 -- Portraits
- Winslow, Ada Remington, 1888-1971 -- Portraits
- Accessories (Clothing & dress)
- Clothing & dress
- Cross dressing
- Dwellings -- United States
- Female impersonators
- Male impersonators
- Gender-nonconforming people
- Gender-nonconforming people -- Clothing & dress -- United States
- Gender non-conforming people
- Japanese
- Kimonos
- Transgender history
- AAPI
- Queer history
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Material | Library Company of Philadelphia Graphic Arts Department | Graphic Arts - Asian American and Pacific Islander History Collection | Photograph Collection Gender Non-Conforming People [P.2023.30] | Available | 318046 |
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from dates on items, content, attire of sitters, and style of stamp boxes on real photo postcards.
Photographers include Joy (probably Sherman Joy), Vicksburg, Mich. and A.F. Mason, Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Some of photographs are real postcard photographs with Azo and Velox stamp boxes.
P.2023.30.1 contains advertising text printed on verso: Absolutely Pure. The Old Reliable Sweet Caporal Cigarette Has Stood the Test of Time. More Sold Than All Other Brands Combined.
P.2023.30.5 & 5a contains ink date stamp on verso: July 21 1947.
P.2023.30.12 contains manuscript note on verso: Cross dresser!
P.2023.30.13 contains manuscript note on verso: Bob Erickson and Linquist brothers, Mississippi.
P.2023.30.16 addressed to D-nei și D-lui Matei Dascălu Loco (Mrs. and Mr. Matei Dascălu. Loco[tenent]) and signed Lt. Dr. G. Dumitrescu. Contains manuscript note on verso: Cu dragoste o amintire pentru mătușa și unchiul meu. Translation: With love, a souvenir for my aunt and uncle. L[ocotenen]t. (i.e., lieutenant).
P.2023.30.17 addressed to the Familiei Matei Dascălu (Matei Dascălu family) and signed [Călela? Or Cătela?]. Contains manuscript note on verso: Vă ofer cu dragoste acest portret. Translation: I offer with love this portrait.
P.2023.30.19-22 contain photographer’s stamp on verso: A.F. Mason 412 So. 3rd St.
P.2023.30.19-22 contain manuscript notes with identities of sitters on verso. Identifies of all the sitters are not always referenced.
Collection of over 20 photographs, predominantly snap shots, dating between the 1890s and 1940s depicting people expressing gender in a non-conforming way or cross dressing. Persons depicted, in interior and exterior settings, dress in male and female attire with hairstyle or accessories of the opposite gender. Most are unidentified. Individuals wear suits, shirts or blouses, pants, smock dresses, skirts (cloth and grass), military uniforms, kimonos, robes, boots, and dress shoes. Accessories shown include bracelets, necklaces, neck ties, Edwardian-style hats, bonnets, scarves, canes/walking sticks, bowler hats, and cigars. Settings include individuals at recreation, in group and/or playful poses, and contrived everyday scenarios. Some photographs also contain images of dwellings, a structure under construction, children’s toys, a piano, a wash basin, lawns, meadows, and pathways or clearings in wooded areas. Also contains a ca. 1895 cigarette card showing performer and female impersonator Richard Harlow in female attire portraying the Queen of Spain in the play "1492" (P.2023.30.1); two ca. 1945 complementary photographs depicting what appears to be a white male American soldier and a Japanese woman who have swapped clothing (P.2023.30.10-11); two complementary ca. 1915 real photo portrait postcards with a Romanian provenance depicting a person in a soldier’s uniform and a suit (P.2023.30.16-17); and a series of four ca. 1910 photographs (with several of the sitters identified on the verso) by Cedar Rapids, Ia. photographer Alva F. Mason showing persons, possibly from a college sorority, in playful poses and posed as couples, with some of the individuals cross dressing (P.2023.20.19-22). Photographer Mason, per the 1910 Census, worked at a "Photo Sorority Store."
Identified sitters include Bob Erickson, Ivah Gibbs (Box), Hazel Mentzer (Cargin), Mrs Byron Henecke, Helen Waters, Belva Patton (Trinka), Edlee Robertson (Curell), Ada Remington (Winslow), Olive Brady (Stolba), Frances McMoran (Adams), Lillian Ringsmuth (Bosley), Elsie Miller Bradley, Nina Miller, Tressa Miller (Eckert), Mabel Rawson, Grace Denny, and Margaret Storkey.
Purchased with partial funds from the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Women's History and African American History funds.