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Their Sisters Keepers Book Cover Photograph, 1993


Marilynn Wood Hill is the author of "Their Sisters Keepers: Prostitution in New York City 1830-1870." Marilynn Hill explores the role of prostitutes in New York City in the mid-eighteenth century, what led them to choose this profession, the discrimination and legal harassment they endured, and how they asserted their rights to protect themselves and their property. This photograph was featured on page 50 of the Winter 1993 issue of The Key.


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1993

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