The cast of a “womanless wedding” assembles at the Renville Opera House in Renville, Minnesota, ca. 1920s.

Painting of vaudeville performer and drag artist Karyl Norman (“The Creole Fashion Plate”), who performed in Minnesota in the 1920s. Photograph by James Hargis Connelly. Reproduced from National Vaudeville Souvenir Artists. (New York: Vaudeville Managers Protective Association, 1923). Public domain.

Drag performers in a “Carleton Circus” act at Carleton College. Photo by Harvey E. Stork, 1921.

Wedding revue featuring drag performers at the Odd Fellows Hall in Lanesboro, December 12, 1916.

Julian Eltinge in costume for the Broadway production of “The Merry Widow,” 1911. Eltinge performed at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis in 1925.

Cover of the sheet music of “Rag Time Mixes My Brain,” featuring a photograph of Mary Marble performing in drag at the California Theater in San Francisco, 1900. Marble performed in Minnesota in 1897. Reproduced in Amy Sueyoshi’s “Mindful Masquerades: Que(e)rying Japanese Immigrant Dress in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco,” Frontiers 26, no. 3 (2005): 67–100.

Paul Vernon in San Francisco, ca. 1885. Vernon performed in Minnesota over the course of his long career. Bancroft Library, University of Berkeley.

Members of a Minnesota Elks Club ready to perform in drag as the Flora Dora Girls, 1908.

Crowd at the dedication of the third statue of Shaynowishkung (He Who Rattles, also known as Chief Bemidji), June 6, 2015. Photograph by Red Lake Nation News. Used with the permission of Red Lake Nation News.