Drag King Collection
07-004

Summary Information

Repository
Newcomb Archives
Title
Drag King Collection
ID
07-004
Date [inclusive]
1914-2007
Extent
3.0 Cubic feet three boxes
Language
English

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Scope and Contents note

Collection covers drag king culture in New Orleans, in the United States, at Tulane and Newcomb, includes photos of drag shows, event posters, zines, magazines,etc. relating to queer life. In addition, the collection includes select chapters from a book on drag culture, information from a presentation on drag culture, and documents relating to the research protocol for the book on drag culture.

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Organization and Arrangement

Materials have been arranged in three boxes with labelled subject folders. Materials have been arranged in folders in accordance with their purpose and subject matter. Materials have been unfolded and all paperclips removed.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Newcomb Archives

Newcomb Center for Research on Women
Seltzer-Gerard Reading Room
62 Newcomb Place
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118
504 865 5762
vorhoff@tulane.edu

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Controlled Access Headings

Subject(s)

  • Burlesque
  • Drag Culture
  • Lesbians
  • Performances
  • Transsexuals

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Collection Inventory

Box 1 of 3 

Loose Contents 

General note

CD Rosana Interviews on Lesbian Community and Drag king shows [no date provided]

CD titled “Bibliography for drag kings” [no date provided]

Floppy Disk titled “kings” with unknown content [no date provided]

Folder 1: “Drag King Book/ Presentation Info.” 

General note

Photocopy of reference page from “The Drag King Book”

Talk by Alana Kumbier “Drag Kinging: Politics, Performance, and Community”- March 15, 2005

Notes by Bea Calvert presenting the Drag King Collection - June 14, 2010

PowerPoint printout about the New Orleans Drag King Project - June 10, 2010 (three copies, one with notes)

Oral history interview handout

Proposed schedule for questions for the oral histories in the New Orleans Drag King Collection (two copies) and handwritten additions

Email from Alana Kumbier to Cristina Hernandez with questions about the New Orleans drag king scene- May 6, 2006

Email to Cristina Hernandez with Hullaballoo index entries for keywords: Mr. Sophie Newcomb, Mr. H. Sophie Newcomb, Miss Paul Tulane, and Drag

Daily schedule of American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition 2006

About LGBT Religious Archives Network (two copies)

Introduction (two copies)

Chapter 5- Archiving from the Ground Up

Drag Kings of New Orleans: Documenting Cultural History ALA Presentation (two copies)- June 25, 2006

Building a Core Collection for Drag King Research

Discussion on Starting NODKP (two copies)

Folder 2: Drag King Book/ Presentation Info. Continued 

General note

Introduction

“Mackdaddy, Superfly, Rapper: Gender, Race, and Masculinity in the Drag King Scene”

“Oh Behave! Austin”

Folder 3: Drag King Research Protocol 

General note

The cost of doing oral history

Forms for request for expedited IRB Review (two copies)

Signed consent forms for taped oral histories

Signed consent forms for written responses to oral history interview questions

Blank consent forms

Letter exempting the research from the federal policy for Protection of Human Subjects (two copies)

Consent forms from The Ohio State University (five copies)

Folder 4: New Orleans drag king troupes info. 

General note

Fe-Male Trouble drag show photos (six)- Nov. 2000

Fe-Male Trouble drag show photos (six)- Oct. 27, 2000

King of Fools photos- April 1, 2001 at The A.R.K

Fe-Male Trouble debut photos- Oct. 25, 2000 at The Mint

Who’s Ya Daddy? photos- June 17, 2001 at The Shim Sham

Fe-Male Trouble photos (35)- no date

Boys will be girls, girls will be boys coloring book

Troupe history sheet

Email about a performance

Gender Bending Ball

“The Fe-Male Trouble Drag King Troupe”- by Alana Kumbier

“History of the Kingdom Come Drag King and Variety Show”- by Stevie Dicks

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Box 2 of 3 

General note

Bag of oral history cassette tapes

Drag king collection fliers (three copies)

Collection bibliography (21 copies)

Drag kings suggested readings

Fe-Male Trouble posters (three copies)

The Carnival Kings poster

Bag of publications

Five folders containing fliers, posters, and notes

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Box 3 of 3 

General note

Two folders of fliers, posters, and notes

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