Two Photographs, Signed, of the First Famous Trans Woman by Jorgensen, Christine - (1950s)

(1950s). Photograph Photograph. Very Good. Two 1950s-era 8 by 10 inch glossy black-and-white photographs of Christine Jorgensen (born 1926). Jorgensen became a public sensation in 1952 when the New York Daily News ran a front-page story about her titled 'Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Bombshell.' From then until her death in 1989 she was a very public and outspoken advocate for trans rights. Until Caitlin Jenner, Jorgensen was probably the most famous trans woman in the world. The Ed Wood film Glen or Glenda was marketed as the Christine Jorgensen story, but without her permission and a full-length biopic, The Christine Jorgensen Story, landed in theaters in 1970. *** One of the photographs here is a headshot of Jorgensen wearing a tiara, a diamond necklace, and a jeweled embroidered gown. The second image is of Jorgensen with two other women sitting at a table at Lou Walters Latin Quarter in New York City. Both photographs are signed twice, once as formally as Christine and again using the shortened Chris used by her friends. The headshot is signed on the photograph; the group picture is signed above and below a paper frame from the Latin Quarter nightclub. Headshot with some loss to one word of an inscription; group picture with some browning of the print due to imperfect work in the darkroom. A nice pair of images of a ground-breaking Civil Rights leader.