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This is a picture of Effie Rogan who was the madam of the Reliance brothel in the early twentieth century. Courtesy of the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archive.

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Alleged to be Dutch Annie (real name unknown) a kind and generous prostitute and madam in Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880s, who was known as the "Queen of the Red Light District"

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Alleged to be a prostitute known as Missouri Whacker or Missouri Griffin, ca. 1880

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Prostitutes and the Professor (the common name for the piano player in a brothel) in Miles City, Montana, ca. 1910

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A hurdy-gurdy girl, ca. 1900. A hurdy-gurdy girl straddled that fine line between the two types of woman in the west: a good, respectable woman with solid moral fiber and a bad, promiscuous one. Technically performers, many hurdy-gurdy girls supplemented their income with prostitution.

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Risque French postcard image, ca. 1900

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Unidentified prostitute of Wichita, Kansas, ca. 1900

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Three prostitutes stand outside the doors to their rooms at a brothel on Shanghai's Fuzhou

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Hospital for prostitutes on 2nd Avenue, Nashville, 1864. Courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives.

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Illustration from La Prostitution Contemporaine, 1884.

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"L'attente, Rue de Chateaubriand a Paris" by Jean Beraud, ca. 1900. The painting depicts an ambiguous scene that suggests the dark and perilous reality of a woman selling sex on the streets of Paris.

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Two unidentified women of the demimonde goofing off for the camera, ca. 1905

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The grave of Jennie Clark, alias Nellie Coyle, a prostitute in Prescott, Arizona who was stomped to death in the Palace Saloon in 1884 by her paramour.

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The largest house of prostitution in the world, Seattle, Washington, ca. 1900

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"Mamie and Poke," a woman of the demimonde and her dog, ca. 1910

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Illustration from La Prostitution Contemporaine. Contemporary Prostitution: Study of a Social question is a book that was originally published in 1884 by Léo Taxil.

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A woman of the demimonde in New Mexico, ca. 1900

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Unidentified woman of the demimonde, ca. 1900

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Illustration from "Mémoires d'une glace" by Albert Guillaume, 1894

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Unidentified soiled dove of Durant Street, Aspen, Colorado, ca. 1900

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Brothels in Calgary and some mugshots of the women who worked in them, ca. 1915.

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A wealthy West Coast madam, known from San Francisco to Victoria at the turn of the 20th century, Stella Carroll was strong, beautiful and a force to be reckoned with.

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Mugshot of a unidentified prostitute in Toronto, Canada, ca. 1910

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"One of the Girls," ca. 1900

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Celeste & Matilda "Big Tillie" Fattor's Saloon and Brothel in Silverton, Colorado, built in 1907. At one point, there were 32 saloons, gambling halls, and houses of ill-repute on a 3 block stretch of Blair Street. Today, it is the Bent Elbow Saloon.

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