New Archive Acquisitions

The Transgender Archive is proud to announce the following new acquisitions:

New Addition to the Archive’s Art Collection

Original Art by Lili Elbe: Lili Elbe (1882 - 1931) was one of the first identifiable recipients of modern male to female sex reassignment surgery. She was born as a male in Denmark as Einar Wegener and was a successful artist by that name. (Oil Painting)

New Additions to the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Collection

Teaspoon from Compton’s Cafeteria: The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot occurred in August 1966 in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. This incident was the first recorded transgender riot in United States history, preceding the more famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City by three years Vanguard Flyer: Many of those involved in the riot were members of Vanguard, the first known GLBT youth organization in the United States, which had been organized earlier that year with the help of ministers working with Glide Memorial Church, a center for progressive social activism in the Tenderloin for many years.

New Additions to the Japanese Trans (トランスジェンダー) Collection

Ranma 1/2 Comics:   Ranma 1/2 Anime Cell Art: Ranma ½ (らんま½ ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi with an anime adaptation. The story revolves around a 16-year old boy named Ranma Saotome who was trained from early childhood in martial arts. As a result of an accident during a training journey, he is cursed to become a girl when splashed with cold water, but hot water will change him back into a boy. The anime is very popular and deals with gender, gender stereotyping and internal gender identity in a way that is entertaining and thereby accessible to a wide audience.

New Additions to the Archive’s Photograph Collection

Original 1910 Photograph: Two Female-to-Males Original 1910 Photograph: Six Female-to-Males Original 1968 Movie Promo: "The Queen" Original 1968 Movie Promo: "The Queen"  

Original 1955 Photo: John Cabell "Bunny" Breckinridge (8/6/1903 – 11/5/1996) was an American actor, best known for his role as "The Ruler" in Ed Wood’s film Plan 9 from Outer Space, his only film appearance. Breckinridge attempted to undergo sex reassignment surgery at least twice.  

New Additions to the Archive’s Book Collection

1st Edition, 1735 - "Par L’Abbe De Choisy": François Timoléon, abbé de Choisy (October 2, 1644 – October 2, 1724) was a French author whose mother dressed him like a girl until he was eighteen, and, after appearing for a short time in man’s costume, he resumed woman’s dress on the advice of Madame de La Fayette. Signed, 1st Edition, 1990 - "One-Eyed Charley The California Whip": Charley Darkey Parkhurst, often Parkurst, (1812 – 1879) was an American stagecoach driver and early California settler; a fierce driver, he was never afraid to use his gun. Parkhurst (FTM) lived as a man for most of his life, and consequently may have been the first biological woman to vote in California.

1st Edition, 1969 - "Psychodynamics of Change of Sex Through Surgery"

1998 - "I, Pear Hart": Pearl (Taylor) Hart (c. 1871 – after 1928) was a Canadian-born outlaw of the American Old West. Performing one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, her crime gained notoriety primarily due to the fact that she dressed like a man.

1st Edition, 1980 - "Herculine Barbin": Herculine Barbin (1838-1868) was a French intersex person who was treated as a female at birth but was later redesignated a male after an affair and physical examination.

1st Edition, 1958 - "Homosexuality, Transvestism and Change of Sex": An early professional book dealing with the subjects listed in the title of the book. 1st Edition, 1962 - "Imji Getsul: An English Buddhist in a Tibetan Monastery": Rare Book by Michael Dillon (May 1, 1915 – May 15, 1962), the first FTM to receive phalloplasty. He latter became the first post-surgical FTM Buddhist monk. 1st Edition, 1962 - "Life of Milarepa: Tibet’s Great Yogi": Rare Book by Michael Dillon (May 1, 1915 – May 15, 1962), the first FTM to receive phalloplasty. He latter became the first post-surgical FTM Buddhist monk. 1st Edition, 1973 English Version of the 1620 Document - "Hic Mulier": Hic Mulier is the name of a pamphlet published in 1620 in England that condemned transvestitism. Women wearing men’s apparel was becoming increasingly common in that period, causing concern to the pamphleteer and other social conservatives. The pamphlet argued that transvestitism was an affront to nature, The Bible, the Great chain of being, and society. 1st Edition, 1970 - "The Female Eunuch": The book is a feminist analysis, written with a mixture of polemic and scholarly research. It was a key text of the feminist movement in the 1970s. In sections titled Soul, Love and Hate the author examines historical definitions of women’s perception of self and uses a premise of imposed limitations to critique modern consumer societies, female “normality” and masculine shaping of stereotypes.

New Additions to the Magazine and Newspaper Collection

June 1973 - "The Gay Crusader": Coverage of the Repeal of and anti-trans ordinance in Chicago.  1996 - "Who’s Who & Resource Guide to the Transgender Community"

  March 1953 - "Dare Magazine": Article called, "Male or Female? Psudohermaphrodites: Can They Choose Their Sex? Can They Bear Children?"