Male impersonators

Date: 1914

From: Whittaker, Ian :Photographs of the Mokau District and Amy Bock

Reference: 1/2-094176-F

Description: Amy Bock, photographed in 1914 in Mokau, New Plymouth, by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 2005

By: Downstage Theatre Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-DOWNSTAGE-2005

Description: Includes posters for the following productions: Drag Kings. "Dick'n'mix". It takes allsorts. New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Downstage 6, 7, 13, 14 May [2005] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying around 600 x 420 mm.

Date: 1909

From: [Ephemera relating to New Zealand persons whose surnames begin with B].

By: Pattillo, Cecil Wright, 1875-1968

Reference: Eph-A-PEOPLE-Bock-02

Description: Postcard shows a vertical oval half-length photographic portrait of the cross-dresser Amy Bock in a shirt, jacket and waistcoat. Verso contains a handwritten message addressed to Lena [Chittock] from "Mabel": "Dear Lena, Just a line to let you know that I have been in Dunedin since last Monday but I am going away to Mossburn tomorrow again we have had no word of the Kelso job yet but I hope to get it. This is a real Photo of Amy Bock what do you think of her, a bit of a goer. I came down in the same train as her so I had a good look, she is very like Mrs Waugh. Daisy is getting married all right. [Give?] regards to all & remember me to Miss Smith. Will send a p-c from Mossburn with address love & xxx from Mabel" Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photographic print on postcard, 138 x 84 mm. (mat finish)

Date: 1909

From: [Ephemera relating to New Zealand persons whose surnames begin with B].

By: Pattillo, Cecil Wright, 1875-1968

Reference: Eph-A-PEOPLE-Bock-03

Description: Postcard shows a vertical oval half-length photographic portrait of the cross-dresser Amy Bock in a shirt, jacket and waistcoat. Verso contains a handwritten message addressed to Mr R Young, 123 Macandrew Road, South Dunedin. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph on postcard, 138 x 84 mm. (glossy finish) Provenance: Donated by David Retter, Wellington, in 2017.

Date: 1909

From: [Ephemera relating to New Zealand persons whose surnames begin with B].

By: Pattillo, Cecil Wright, 1875-1968

Reference: Eph-A-PEOPLE-Bock-04

Description: Card shows on the front a vertical half-length photographic portrait of the cross-dresser Amy Bock in a shirt, jacket and waistcoat. The inside spread contains verses by C Carol, about Bock's escapades. Portrait is probably from a photograph by Cecil Wright Pattillo. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph and letterpress, on card folded to 140 x 83 mm. Provenance: Donated by David Retter, Wellington, in 2017.

Date: Between 1930 and 1950

From: Truman, Gay :Photographs of Sarah Isabella McElligott, 1883-1986

Reference: 1/2-197522-F

Description: Sarah Isabella McElligott (left), in male costume and Arthur Burrows (right), in female costume, photographed in the 1930s or 1940s by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 12.5 x 10 cm

Date: 1912

By: Bock, Amy Maud, 1859-1943

Reference: MS-Papers-1828

Description: To Mrs A M Skelley, discussing egg decorating, after amy Bock's imprisonment on charges of forgery, false pretences and theft, following her marriage to a Miss Ottoway, 1909. Includes postcard featuring Amy Bock and Christmas card from Amy to Mrs Skelley, 1912 Quantity: 1 folder(s) ( 6 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter

Date: 1909

From: [Ephemera relating to New Zealand persons whose surnames begin with B].

By: Universal Post Card Company; Reid, Percy Gower, 1890-1975

Reference: Eph-A-PEOPLE-Bock-01

Description: Postcard shows a cartoon by P Reid (possibly Percival Gower Reid) of Amy Bock dressed in male attire putting on pyjama trousers at the foot of a bed in which a moustached cigar-smoking man is sitting. an empty bottle is under the bed and another bottle stands on the small table at the left. Verso contains a handwritten message addressed to Miss Lena Chittock of Pomahaka Siding. "What do you think of Amy". The name of the writer is not given. P Reid may be cartoonist Percy Gower Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 92 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donor is the daughter of the postcard's recipient Selina (Lena) Patience Chittock (later Selina Brown).

Date: 2004

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DX-022-141

Description: ... Desparate for an income he went along to Winz who said "we have a job for you, the salary begins ar four thousand bucks a month quite substantial pay sign this form, the job is yours, it is your lucky day!" The fellow said "Your joking! I can earn that daily if I can convince Bill Ralston that I'm Judy Bailey." Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: 1925

From: Christoffel, Weiland 1886-1970 : Amy Maud Bock

Reference: PAColl-4861-2

Description: Amy Bock with the Christoffel family on Te Kauwau (Te Kawau?) beach in 1925. Amy is on the right. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1925. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.7 x 8.8 cm

Date: [ca 1909]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1020-54-2

Description: Amy Bock dressed in men's clothing photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1909. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Amy Boch Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.7 x 8.6 cm

Date: [ca 1909]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

By: Pattillo, Cecil Wright, 1875-1968

Reference: PA1-q-1020-54-1

Description: Amy Bock as Percy Carol Redwood, the female bridegroom. Photograph taken by Pattillo, ca 1909. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Amy Bock. Alias "Channel," "Shannon," "Vallance," "Skevington," Alias Percy Carol Redwood &c. The Female Bridegroom.; Recto - bottom right - Yours very truly R.C. Redwood (Alias Amy Bock) 3/5/09; Recto - bottom left - Pattillo photo protected. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1914

From: Christoffel, Weiland 1886-1970 : Amy Maud Bock

Reference: PAColl-4861-1

Description: Amy Bock in Mokau, New Plymouth. Copy photograph made by J E Uden of New Plymouth of an original print taken in 1914 by an unidentified photographer. Note on back of print reads: Amy Bock as she was when I first met her at Mokau 1914. Stamp on back of print reads: J E Van Uden, 77 Gover St, New Plymouth, New Zealand. Phone:84703. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.7 x 8.8 cm

Date: April 1909

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1020-55-2

Description: Men's pyjamas worn by Amy Boch as Percy Carol Redwood photographed by an unknown photographer in April 1909 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Original pyjamas worn by P. Carol. Redwood. Amy. Boch. on April 21st 1909 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.8 x 8.7 cm

Date: [ca 1909]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1020-54-3

Description: Amy Bock as Percy Carol Redwood, the female bridegroom, taken ca 1909 by an unidentified photographer Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Amy Bock. Alias "Channel," "Shannon," "Vallance," "Skevington," Alias Percy Carol Redwood &c. The Female Bridegroom.; Recto - bottom right - Copyright applied for Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 26 March 1918

From: Christoffel, Weiland 1886-1970 : Amy Maud Bock

Reference: PAColl-4861-3

Description: Amy Bock dressed as Pierrot photographed by an unknown photographer 26 March 1918. Inscriptions: Verso - A.M.C. as "Pierrot" at Collie Club J.M.C.A. concert Mch 26th 18. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.7 x 8.4 cm

Date: [ca 1905]

Reference: 1/2-018585-F

Description: Portrait of Amy Bock copied from a photomechanical print, source and photographer unknown, ca 1905. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 16.3 x 11.8 cm