No. 656
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
October 18, 2022

Shocking Youthful Depravity.

The discovery that public school children frequent immoral places creates a startling sensation in C
October 18, 2022
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Tag: Prostitution

Wantons' Wiles.

The Bad Girls of Gotham and Their New Schemes for Man-Catching.

9/10/2024

The Can Can in Denver.

Elevating the Fantastic Toe.

1/2/2024

Snares for the Unwary.

The "Sawed-Door Game" on a Gudgeon.

5/17/2022

Pedal Advertising.

How two Dizzy Girls Advertised Their Charms and Political Faith.

11/5/2018

Their Sex's Worst Foes.

How the gilded vice of the metropolis fishes for its victims in the public streets, and innocent confidence is trapped by the fine feathers which disguise foul birds.

6/26/2017

Demi-Monde Excursion.

Members of the New Orleans Demi-Monde Enjoying an Excursion to the Suburbs of the Southern Metropolis.

5/16/2016

Breaking Up a Bagnio.

11/18/2012

Steam Powered Reformation.

8/14/2012

Saloons and Houses of Ill-Fame.

Buffalo, New York, May 1893.

5/8/2012

Melancholy Boat Accident.

4/24/2012

The Female Marine

12/27/2011

“I’ve Taken Poison, Maudie!”

7/25/2011

Recruiting For Sin's Army

7/5/2011
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Arrest of Female Prowlers. | Spoiled the Chappies’ Fun.

Shocking Youthful Depravity.

Shocking Youthful Depravity

The discovery that public school children frequent immoral places creates a startling sensation in Columbus, O. 

From the startling developments which have been in process of unfolding for the last few days at Columbus, O., says the Journal of that town, and which reached a culmination yesterday, it would seem that the well disposed missionaries have found a fruitful field at home. Conscientious Christian ladies have been stricken with horror in the past few days when they were told that public school pupils—boys and girls—had been for several weeks previous engaged in the pastime of visiting a resort on Town street which sails under the front name of saloon and restaurant, but has rear establishments with stalls and booths and all the paraphernalia which go to make up and improvised place of assignation, where drinking and intoxication may be imagined as among the milder crimes indulged in.


National Police Gazette, December 22, 1888.