Postcards of Masculine Women and Feminine Men from the Early Twentieth Century, by Marshall Weeks and Jonathan Ned Katz

Postcards collected by Marshall Weeks and dating to the early twentieth-century present satirical images of women who wore "mannish" shoes, shirts, collars, ties, and coats, who smoked, went to bars, and who moved independently in the world. Other cards portray effeminate men and, specifically, those then called "fairies" and "pansies." With an introduction by Jonathan Ned Katz. First published on OutHistory in 2011.

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Jonathan Ned Katz is deeply grateful to Marshall Weeks for making electronic copies of these samples from his vast postcard collection and for sharing them with OutHistory.org. For permission to reproduce any of these postcards for commercial purposes, contact Marshall Weeks through OutHistory.org: outhistory@gc.cuny.edu. The introductory text is adapted from Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983), pp. 313-319.
Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976), p. 655 n. 133)
Cited on the published sheet music of Hay's "Mistress Jinks of Madison Square," NY: J. I. Peters, 1868, in the collection of Marshal Weeks.