Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America by John D'Emilio & Estelle B. Freedman

Author:John D'Emilio & Estelle B. Freedman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

35 and 36. By the early twentieth century, prostitution was a thriving enterprise in red-light districts throughout America. Above, one young prostitute poses alluringly for the camera as the madame stands by. Below, Madame Sperber, a black brothel keeper, poses with some of her girls. (Above, Courtesy of the Rhode Island Collection, Providence Public Library; below, Courtesy of the Joseph J. Pennell Collection, University of Kansas.)

37. The Progressive-era campaign against child labor used these photographs by Lewis Hine to protest the role errand boys played in directing men to prostitutes. (Courtesy of the Print Division, Library of Congress.)

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