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| Keywords: The Bowery - 10 cent Turkish Bath.jpg The Bowery - Ten Cent Turkish Bath This photograph was taken c 1884 as this Turkish bath has no records after that date Note in http //www keepmedia com/pubs/EncyclopediaOfLGBTHistory/2005/10/25/1129805 Prostitution Hustling and Sex Work by Heather Lee Miller on 25-Oct-2005 <br> New York City possessed perhaps the best-known gay subculture and a burgeoning population of male prostitutes When New York City moral reformer Charles H Parkhurst accompanied detective Charles W Gardener to a brothel called the Golden Rule Pleasure Club in 1892 he was appalled to find that the young women residents were actually men wearing dresses and make-up and speaking in falsetto so as to appear like women At another male brothel known as Paresis Hall in the Bowery district dozens of male prostitutes plied their trade This version is a crop of the original photograph Rationale This image does not require a usage rationale as it is public domain See Licensing section Source Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA Digital file from original neg Note Users may download images themselves or can order copies through the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service Detailed source information TITLE Bowery 10 cent Turkish Bath CALL NUMBER LC-B22-308-12 REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-DIG-ggbain-01393 digital file from original neg No known restrictions on publication MEDIUM 1 negative glass ; 8 x 10 in CREATOR Bain News Service publisher NOTES Forms part of George Grantham Bain Collection Library of Congress Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards General information about the Bain Collection is available at http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/pp ggbain REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/pp print DIGITAL ID digital file from original neg ggbain 01393 http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/ggbain 01393 CARD ggb2004001393 Original upload to the English-language Wikipedia by User Ash PD-old LGBT in the United States Sauna buildings New York City in the 1880s Saunas in the United States Hammams in the United States | ||||
