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Reines des trotoirs Postcard

Postcard, ca. 1900. Four women in front of a café. Part of a series of cards with pictures of city life in Amsterdam. The women are probably servants who also worked as prostitutes.

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  • Queens on the sidewalks of Amsterdam

    story by Remko Prins , Emma Verweij.

    How did sex work intertwine with daily life on the street around 1900? We will travel on this postcard to find answers. There is more than what meets the eye. This story is part of the research project PROSPECT: <em>The Spectacle of Prostitution</em>, supervised by Marion Pluskota and Fresco Sam-Sin.

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