• Title
  [Ellen Tremaye alias Edward] de Lacy Evans / N. White, photo.
• Creator
  Nicholas White
• Call number
  P1/220
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1879
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  152639
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 carte-de-visite - 10.3 x 6.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For a contemporary account see The history and confession of Ellen Tremaye alias de Lacy Evans, the man-woman. Melbourne : Wm. Marshall, printer, 1880. Location Number: A920.8/T Mitchell Library
• Scope and Content
  Full-length double portrait of Ellen Tremaye as a female (in ca. 1877 costume) and as her male alias Edward de Lacy Evans
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Published in: Margot Riley. "Crossing the Line : cross-dressing @ the Library", SL (State Library of New South Wales magazine), Summer 2010/2011, pp. 12-15
• General note
  
  The image is probably a fake cut-and-paste portrait produced after de lacy Evans was discovered to be a woman in September 1879, after 22 years of dressing, living and working as a man. Registered by photographer, N. White, of Sandhurst, Bendigo, Victoria, the carte de visite would have been sold as a curiosity
  Research notes compiled by Link van Ummersen, available at PXn 919, Original Materials Reading Room, Mitchell Library
  
  La Trobe Library holds a copy of this carte
  Reference: Parting with my sex : cross-dressing, inversion and sexuality in Australian cultural life / Lucy Chesser. University of Sydney, N.S.W. : Sydney University Press, 2008
  
  Transferred from P1/Tremaye, Ellen, ca. 1879 (BM), November 2009
  Digital order no:Album ID : 881161
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled at lower edge
  "The woman of Bendigo always dressed as man" in pen on reverse
• Name
  Tremaye, Ellen
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  cross dressers
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1113688

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