Chinese crib girl in San Francisco's Chinatown. According to the 1870 census, 1,565 Chinese prostitutes worked in San Francisco, and they constituted 61 percent of the entire Chinese female population. Most were virtually slaves of the Chinese Tongs.

Historical photographs, artworks, and miscellanea pertaining to prostitutes and prostitution in the period from 1865 until 1914 (give or take) throughout the world.