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Gender nonconformity

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Gender Identity
Gender expression

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Images from the collections

Images about Gender nonconformity

326 images from works
  • George Coutts in drag. Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • Albert Letine in drag. Postcard, ca. 1907.
  • James Gardiner Collection: Victorian album.
  • James Gardiner Collection: Victorian album.
  • An actor in drag, posing for a portrait. Photograph by Mme Yvonne, 194-.
  • Douglas Byng in drag during a pantomime. Photograph, 1952.
  • Terry Bartlett in drag. Photograph, 193-.
  • James Gardiner Collection: Victorian album.
  • James Gardiner Collection: Victorian album.
  • C. Rittfar wearing Edwardian style dress.
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Works from the collections

301 works

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    Photograph of a woman dressed in a cowboy costume.

    | Date: [between 1850 and 1920?] | Reference: 3305582i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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    Louis Hayden in drag. Process print, 1946.

    | Date: 1946 | Reference: 2045196i
    Part of: James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
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    "Derkas ?", dressed in drag, on stage. Photographic postcard, 1928.

    | Date: 1928 | Reference: 2045006i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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    A man in drag playing the piano. Photographic postcard by Legg (?) & Co., 192-.

    | Date: [between 1920 and 1929] | Reference: 2064357i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Books

    Transgender architectonics : the shape of change in modernist space / Lucas Crawford.

    Crawford, Lucas | Date: [2015]
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Related topics

Female impersonators
Gender Identity
Gender Identity
Sexual and Gender Minorities
Transgender Persons
Transgender Persons
Transsexualism
Sexual and Gender Minorities
Transvestism
Gender Identity

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