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  • An effeminate footballer insists on wearing feminine sportswear. Colour process print, 194-.
  • An effeminate footballer insists on wearing feminine sportswear. Colour process print, 194-.
  • A young man called Oscar is asked by his mother whether he wears hairpins (regarded by her as effeminate). Colour process print, ca. 1907.
  • A young man called Oscar is asked by his mother whether he wears hairpins (regarded by her as effeminate). Colour process print, ca. 1907.
  • C. Rittfar wearing Edwardian style dress.
  • A man wearing a kimono posing from behind a screen.
  • C. Rittfar wearing Edwardian style dress.
  • A man wearing a kimono posing from behind a screen.
  • Maitland Cecil Melville Wills posing in a black corset and heavy skirt.
  • Maitland Cecil Melville Wills posing in a black corset and heavy skirt.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Engraving.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by T. Chambers after R. Cosway, 1787.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Reproduction after J.G. Huquier.
  • Two scenes of Le Chevalier D'Éon fencing at Angelo's Fencing Academy. Reproductions of watercolours, 1904, by T. Rowlandson.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1810.
  • Passengers on RMS Armadale Castle, some in drag, pose for a group portrait. Photographic postcard, 1933.
  • Passengers on RMS Armadale Castle, some in drag, pose for a group portrait. Photographic postcard, 1933.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman: shown half in woman's, half in man's attire. Engraving.
  • John Lindstrom (? Lind) in drag. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • John Lindstrom (? Lind) in drag. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • A man in drag, wearing a large bonnet, leans on a parasol whilst standing in front of a brick building. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A man in drag, wearing a large bonnet, leans on a parasol whilst standing in front of a brick building. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A performer in drag poses on stage wearing a head garment with sprawling feathers. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A performer in drag poses on stage wearing a head garment with sprawling feathers. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Victoria Palace theatre at night. Photographic postcard, ca. 1924.
  • Victoria Palace theatre at night. Photographic postcard, ca. 1924.
  • A character in the play "The widdow Ranter": Semernia, a Native American queen, with two pageboys. Mezzotint by W. Vincent.
  • Actors sitting in front of an ambulance train, some in drag. Photograph, 191-.
  • Actors sitting in front of an ambulance train, some in drag. Photograph, 191-.