Charlotte Charke 1713-1760: Actress, Novelist, and Transvestite.
At the age of four, Charlotte discovered the two great loves of her life: acting and cross-dressing.
From an early age she was said to enjoy male activities, such as sports, shooting, and horse racing.
Charlotte found success on the stage and developed a fascination with transvestite roles. She was said to be talented in such roles & in fact, most of her roles thereafter required she wear breeches. From that point forward she began to wear breeches on and off stage.
She was Britain's first female theatre manager and a pioneer celebrity author. But when she donned men's clothes and became Charles Brown, she was a gentleman’s valet, a waiter, a pastry cook, a pig farmer and a strolling player.
(Charlotte in pink below)
The Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. The fairgrounds were made up of five main buildings, as well as some 250 pavilions and auxiliary structures, including twenty-four state buildings.
A slideshow about the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, showing the architecture, exhibits, technological and cultural displays.
The official theme was the celebration of the United States Centennial 1776-1876. Most of the buildings were "temporary" as usual!
Jerusalem, Palestine The Old City, 1925
Entering the city through the Jaffa Gate (to the right the Citadel and the Tower of David), small shops, markets and street scenes near the gates of Damascus and Herod, and in the old quarters; water distribution during drought.