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Sex work

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Sex industry

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Images from the collections

Images about Sex work

6 images from works
  • Meegan, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.
  • Cissy, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.
  • Elia, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.
  • Sex workers in Bern, Switzerland, being punished by collecting night-soil in the streets. Engraving by C. Warren, ca. 1790.
  • Luci, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.
  • Betsy, a sex worker with her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.

Works from the collections

13 works

    • Archives and manuscripts

    MS Japanese 56

    | Date: 1884
    • Books

    Artificial womb : [trial issue]. 4 / made by Tasha Lee ; with front cover by Alfie Pound ; content by Rachel McNeil, Tasha Lee, Karolina T, Blair Mclaughlin, Lisa Brown, and Coralie Bougerra.

    | Lee, Tasha | Date: [2015]
    • Pictures

    Sex workers in Bern, Switzerland, being punished by collecting night-soil in the streets. Engraving by C. Warren, ca. 1790.

    | Date: 1790 | Reference: 27974i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Betsy, a sex worker with her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1809?] | Reference: 27934i
    • Books

    [Jo Spence zine] / compiled by Christabel Stewart].

    | Jo Spence | Date: [2013]
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