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Transvestism

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Paraphilic Disorders

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  • Works from the collections
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Images from the collections

Images about Transvestism

37 images from works
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Engraving.
  • C. Rittfar wearing Edwardian style dress.
  • A boy enjoying wearing female clothing. Colour process print, ca. 1919.
  • Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • A man wearing a kimono posing from behind a screen.
  • A Scotsman and his female companion swap his kilt and her trousers after going to the public baths. Colour process print after BF, 195-.
  • C. Rittfar wearing Edwardian style dress.
  • Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.
  • A man wearing a kimono posing from behind a screen.

Works from the collections

345 works

    • Pictures
    • Online

    A man in drag, wearing a large hat and veil, posing in a garden.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?] | Reference: 2044782i
    Part of: James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
    • Ephemera

    Total transformation.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Books

    Sex life of a transvestite / by Larry Maddock (as told to him by Leonard Wheeler).

    Maddock, Larry | Date: ©1964
    • Books

    Tales of the maid : volume two / edited by Francoise Quesnay.

    | Date: 1999
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A man wearing a white dress at "Jays concert party".

    | Date: 1918 | Reference: 2044534i
    Part of: James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
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