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This may be the strangest photo ever seen in this column. In a recent feature on the city’s “red light” district, we included a photo of
That photo of Mrs. Roberts, was taken in 1933 when she was 78. The city forced the closure of the profitable bordellos in the South End in 1912. Here, in another extremely rare image loaned by Crisp, we see Alta and friends posing in a motorcar inside a photo studio around 1900. There is a real tree and painted scenery in the background with a road sign pointing towards
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