"You’re never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze."

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One of the most famous of E.J. Bellocq’s photographs of prostitutes in New Orleans’ Storyville district, where sex work was legal from 1897-1917.

(via mills)

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    yeah, i’m just gonna go ahead and claim that this lady is a relative of mine. CAN’T PROVE ME WRONG.

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     One of my favorite vintage photographs.

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     the prostitute with the statue on the table beside her. (I also love writing the word “juxtaposition”)

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