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Dec 17, 1997 · Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District is written by Al Rose. The author states that the purpose of this book is "to give the reader a reasonable true-to-life impression of `The District'--its people, its music, its press, its rise and decline, its `ways" (1).
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"Storyville, New Orleans" starts out with a brief history of prostitution in the Crescent City and takes the reader on a street-by-street tour of the district created by city aldermen in 1897. Photographs of the girls and their houses are on just about every page and really shows the day-to-day operation of Storyville.
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The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans. by Pamela D. Arceneaux, with a foreword by Emily Epstein Landau. The Historic New Orleans Collection 2017. hardcover • 9" × 12" • 160 pp. 320 color images. ISBN 978-0-917860-73-7. $50 • £35. Buy now. Between 1897 and 1917, a legal red-light district thrived at the edge of the French Quarter ...
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Dec 17, 1997 · During the course of Storyville’s legal existence from January 1, 1898 to November 12, 1917—it is evident that in establishing this district the New Orleans city council acted out of a sense of frustration after decades of attempting to deal rationally with a serious social problem.
Books. Storyville, New Orleans, Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-light District. Al Rose. University of Alabama Press, 1974 - History - 225 pages. A true-to-life impression of Storyville, the only legally established red light district in the US. At the turn of the twentieth-century, there were hundreds of red-light ...
