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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.

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

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Parlor houses on Market Street in Denver, Colorado, ca. 1900

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"The Sporting Row" on Avenue D, Virginia City, Nevada, as seen in 1928

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Guide to the brothels of Paris, France, 1883

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Advertising trinket for Madam Mattie Silks' brothel in Denver, Colorado

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Jennie Rogers, also known as "Big Jennie," was a well-known madam in Denver, Colorado, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She played a significant role in the city's history, particularly in the development of its notorious red-light district.

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Pearl Moore, a prostitute in Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1910

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Anne Yates, 50, was charged with 'keeping a brothel' in Vancouver, British Columbia, and fined £5 in 1912

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Madam Lilian Powers (left) poses with Lillis Lovell, who owned a fancy parlor house in Market Street in Denver, Colorado, ca. 1910

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Photograph by thought to be of Madam Sarah Shearer (left) and unidentified women By William Goldman in Reading, Pennsylvania.

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Mugshot and blotter for Trilby Thorne, occupation prostitute, Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Stage photograph of two prostitutes after drinking, ca. 1905

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Rosie Lee Reed (September 1868 – July 6, 1925), better known as Pearl Starr, was an American bordello owner and businesswoman in Arkansas, the first child of Belle Starr, the reputed "Bandit Queen" of the American Old West.

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Unidentified inmate of the Sallie Shearer's brothel, Reading Pennsylvania, photograph by William I. Goldman, ca. 1910

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Lizzie Lape, née Elizabeth Rogers, was a madam in Ohio. She ran at least six brothels in her lifetime and had eight husbands. In Akron, and ran The Halfway House, a prosperous business that was, as was her specialty, part saloon, part gambling den, and part brothel.

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Postcard image of a man with two brothel inmates, ca. 1910

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Mugshots of women incarcerated in San Quentin prison, California. Gender-based economic disparity and discrimination forced many women to turn to crime, including prostitution, in order to survive in the late 1800s/early 1900s.

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Risque French postcard of dark-haired woman in stockings, ca. 1910

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Cora Crane, born Cora Ethel Eaton Howarth (July 12, 1868 – September 5, 1910), was an American businesswoman, nightclub and bordello owner, writer and journalist. She is best known as the common-law wife of writer Stephen Crane from 1896 to his death in 1900.

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Erotic French postcard of woman smoking opium, ca. 1900

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"Prostitute in a Forest in Winter" by Robert Ernest Noir.

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William I. Goldman (March 27, 1856 – January 25, 1922) was an American commercial photographer in Reading, Pennsylvania. He secretly assembled a collection of photographs of the prostitutes of Sallie Shearer's brothel, which was near his studio.

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Pearl de Vere, born Eliza Martin, (October 1859 – June 5, 1897), known as the "soiled dove of Cripple Creek", was a 19th-century prostitute and madam. She died of a morphine overdose after one of her lavish parties.

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Mugshot of Matilda Bramble, alias Sarah Davies. of London. By the age of 15, Sarah was already frequenting the streets and working as a prostitute.

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Madam Belle Brezing of Lexington, Kentucky in her finery, ca. 1905

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