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Description: "Geraldine Portica--This is not a girl, but a boy, who was reared by his mother as a girl and has always dressed as a girl and went to school as a girl and has never associated with any one else but girls and was employed as a chamber maid on 6th St. when arrested, he is a native of Mexico and speaks several languages, his English with the Spanish accent, he is now waiting to be deported ot Mexico by the U.S. Gov. Dec. 27th, 1917."
Title: Geraldine Portica--This is not a girl, but a boy, who was reared by his mother as a girl
Credit: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Author: Cook (Jesse Brown) Scrapbooks Documenting San Francisco History and Law Enforcement, ca. 1895-1936
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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