#murray hall

[lawofcollage]

I made this piece in honor of all the queer folks that came before us, especially the gender nonconforming ones. Many are not famous or well known, and that is on purpose. It hangs on my wall.

People mentioned here: Billy Tipton, Murray Hall, Charley Parkhurst, Joseph Israel Lobdell, John Smith and James Pratt, Mademoiselle de Beaumont, Lili Elbe, Kuchek Hanem, We'wha, Olha Koby Iianska, Akiko Uosano, Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sanchez Loriga, Bayard Ruston, Yukio, Arthur Berloget, Bowery Queen, Zimri Lim, Ela, Sylvia Brake, James Clay, Albert Cashier, Public Universal Friend, Jack Bee Garland, Mary Jones, Thomas Hall, Boulton and Park, Sammy Williams, Nell Pickerell

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[spugbie]

I be forgetting to post lol

[princetonarchives]

The Ville de Havre struck a British clipper, the Loch Earn, halfway in it its journey across the Atlantic. Hamilton Murray, Class of 1872, and his sister, Martha, died along with 224 others in the crash and subsequent sinking of the ship. He left $20,000--more than half a million dollars in today's currency--to Princeton's Philadelphian Society for their use in constructing Murray Hall.

Princeton Alumni Weekly Photograph Collection (AC126), Box 23.

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[yourdailyqueer]

Murray Hall (deceased)

Gender: Transgender man

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: Born 1841

RIP: 16 January 1901

Ethnicity: White - Scottish

Nationality: American

Occupation: Bondsman, politician (Tammany Hall/Democrat)

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[allforthesong]

My other preorder is also coming almost a week early! Murray Hall tomorrow (but out on the 17th?!)