User:Eurodog/sandbox402
Appearance
Historic Underground NYC
"Gentlemen's guides"
[edit]
- The Gentleman's Directory. New York: (privately published). 1870.
- Re-Print → The Gentleman's Directory. New York Historical Society; Applewood Books. 2013 [1870]. ISBN 978-1-4290-9809-0, 1-4290-9809-0; OCLC 864505653 (all editions).
- The Gentleman's Companion: New York City in 1870. New York: (privately published). 1870. OCLC 79315575 (all editions)
- Online – via New York Times & the New York Historical Society.
- By A. Butt Ender (1839). Prostitution Exposed; Or, A Moral Reform Directory: Laying Bare the Lives, Histories, Residences, Seductions, &c. of the Most Celebrated Courtezans and Ladies of Pleasure of the City of New-York: Together with a Description of the Crime and its Effects: As also, of the Houses of Prostitution and their Keepers, Houses of Assignation, their Charges and Conveniences, and other Particulars Interesting to the Public. "Fifth Edition – With Many Additions." Dedicated it to "The Ladies' Reform Association". New York: Published for Public Convenience. OCLC 937015247, 191307356.The publication included a list of brothels, with descriptions of the women working there, and even mentioned where to find abortionists.
- DeKock, Charles (1855). Guide to Harems.This publication invoked Victorian morality, justifying prostitution as a way to protect virtuous women: "These 'houses' by affording that gratification are the best safeguards to the virtue of maidens, wives and widows, who would otherwise be exposed to violence and outrage."[1]
- The Bachelor’s Guide, and Widow’s Manual; Containing Three Thousand One Hundred and Eighty-Six Names of Widow Ladies’, and House Keepers in the Cities of New York and Brooklyn. New York: A.G. Powell. 1842. OCLC 80162492, 937016899
- Eastman, H.D. (1853). Fast Man's Directory, and Lovers' Guide to the Ladies of Fashion and Houses of Pleasure in New-York and other Large Cities. New York.
{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) OCLC 950932834, 1323049253."What strikes me is the understanding that "ladies of fashion" is a term for prostitutes. I didn't know that! I recall that high end courtesans and prostitutes in England were called "fashionable impures" in the early nineteenth century, but didn't know about this American usage." – Paula A. Baxter (bio)
- The Young Man’s Guide to Pleasure in New York and All Other Cities (ca. 1855).
- Ellington, George (1869). The Women of New York; Or, the Under-World of the Great City. Illustrating the Life of Women of Fashion, Women of Pleasure, Actresses and Ballet Girls ... Etc. New York Book Co. OCLC 15601121
- 1869 original – via Internet Archive (Harvard Library).
- 1869 original – via Internet Archive (NYPL).
- 1869 original – via Internet Archive (University of Michigan Library).
- 1869 original ("the gift of ex-Governor Holliday") – via Google Books (University of Virginia Libraries).
- 1869 original – via Google Books (Harvard Library).
- 1869 original – via Google Books (University of Michigan Library).
- 1869 original – via Google Books (NYPL).
- 1972 re-print. Arno Press – via Internet Archive (Kahle/Austin Foundation). ISBN 978-0-4050-4456-4, 0-4050-4456-9; OCLC 918137718 (all editions).
- 2010 re-print. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1-1658-1939-2, 978-1-1658-1939-3; OCLC 864505653 (all editions).
Bibliography
[edit]Annotations
[edit]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- Moudrov, Alexander (Summer 2018). "The Man Who Counted All Prostitutes in New York City: John R. McDowall and the Scandal of the Magdalen Report". European Journal of American Studies.
ISSN 1991-9336; doi:10.4000/ejas.12604; OCLC 8772713848, 8286401143, 8601645638 & 7808502865.
- Bottles, Julia; Chiwaya, Nigel (March 6, 2016). "MAP: Discover the Hidden History of New York's First Sex Districts". DNAinfo.
- BBC America (blog) (August 26, 2013). Anglophenia – The Business of Prostitution. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
- Morgan, Bill (October 19, 2013). The Civil War Lover’s Guide to New York City. El Dorado Hills, California: Savas Beatie. ISBN 978-1-6112-1122-1, 1-6112-1122-0, ISBN 978-1-6112-1123-8, 1-6112-1123-9; OCLC 807024416 (all editions).
- Friedman, Lawrence Meir. A History of American Law (3rd ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 445 – via Internet Archive (Kahle/Austin Foundation). LCCN 2005-42451.