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This includes work by Michael Benedikt, Terry Stokes and others. Fine bright stiff wraps with excellent spine and crisp text. Attractive.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 102 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.23 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 102 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.23 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 102 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.23 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 102 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.23 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 102 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.23 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine, With original 2 page press release, 2 advertisement cards & a correction slip laid-in. Illustrated by Profusely illus.with photos. 1st Amer.ed.st. Binding is Cloth/bds,.

Ohne Stempel, keine An- und Unterstreichungen, sehr guter Zustand. Softcover. Kein Versand aufgrund von EPR Regelungen in EU-Länder außerhalb Deutschlands. No shipping to EU countries outside of Germany due to EPR regulations.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Condition: Good. 32mo. Letterpress Card, Red & Black Ink, Very Good. Illustrated. One of 400. Scarce.

Condition: Good. 32mo. Printed Card, Black Ink on Yellow Card, Very Good. Illustrated. One of 450. Very Scarce.

Cartella stampa cm23x31, chiusura a calamita, con opuscolo di Press Information in inglese, pp (1) 22 8 stampate solo recto con propria copertina in brossura, e busta con 9 fotografie a colori cm18x24, con carta sommario in inglese e tedesco. Piccolo difetto sulla carta che riveste l'interno della cartella (mancanza di circa 5mm su un margine), per il resto in buono stato.

Transgender public identity and Christine Jorgensen press photo archive depicting the first widely publicized trans woman in American mass media, from staged publicity and television retrospectives to dramatized scenes from The Christine Jorgensen Story. Jorgensen became internationally known after the New York Daily News reported her transition on December 1, 1952, following hormone treatment and surgery in Denmark under Dr. Christian Hamburger. Her celebrity developed through nightclub work, interviews, autobiography, campus speaking, and television appearances, giving mid-century American audiences a named public figure through whom they first encountered medical transition, gender identity, and the social consequences of legal recognition. The Christine Jorgensen Story, released in 1970 by United Artists and based on her 1967 autobiography, moved that life into commercial cinema at a time when trans identity was still usually treated by the press as spectacle rather than self-definition. Photo archive of 8 silver gelatin press photographs, each approximately 8" x 10", United States and London, circa 1968-1977. Christine Jorgensen appears in formal and public settings, including a London arrival or press appearance with hat, coat, gloves, handbag, and fur, and an ABC publicity sheet for the program "2nd Edition of Whatever Became Of," identifying her as having "went into show business after making front-page headlines with a sex change." Verso captions identify a September 10, 1970 London appearance connected to the Loews premiere of The Christine Jorgensen Story, while two film stills show John Hansen as George Jorgensen receiving a locket from Aunt Thora and a clinical scene with a doctor examining the young Jorgensen's arm. Additional portraits and press subjects broaden the group beyond Jorgensen alone, including a photo of Erika Schineggar, a former top Austrian skier who later identified as "Erik," and an individual in both masc and femme attire, expanding this archive to the greater trans identity during the 1960s and 1970s. Jorgensen's visibility came decades before most American jurisdictions allowed straightforward amendment of sex markers, and her rejected 1959 marriage license application in New York became one of the best-publicized examples of how state records could deny recognition to a trans woman's adult life. The group anchors institutional collecting in the concrete media channels that made trans identity public to broad audiences: wire-service captions, television publicity, staged film biography, and celebrity portraiture. Light handling wear, creasing, stamps, caption sheets, pasted press captions, and editorial markings; overall in good condition. The Jorgensen sequence, especially the 1970 London premiere material and the ABC "Whatever Became Of" publicity, places her after the first wave of sensational coverage and inside the later television culture that revisited celebrity lives.