Nancy Sharon Collins on Implications of a Second Color in New Orleans Blue Books, ca. 1910
Kseniya Thomas
“The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1969.19.9_p8,9
Storyville, a neighborhood in New Orleans, was an infamous red light district mandated by city ordinance in 1897. The area spanned several blocks and represented a way for the authorities to keep an eye on legalized prostitution.