"A notorious attraction" Sex and tourism in New Orleans, 1897-1917

Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 15-41

  Long, Alecia P ^a  

^a Louisiana State Museum   (United States)

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References (83)

1. Charles D udley Warner, "New Orleans," Harper's New Monthly Mag azine, January 1887, 186-205.
2. The Mascot, January 22, 1887.
3. Ibid.; The New Orleans Item, February 10, 1910.
4. Martin Behrman, Martin Behrman of New Orleans: Memoirs of a City Boss, ed. John R. Kemp (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977), 302-16;
5. George M. Reynolds, Machine Politics in New Orleans, 1897-1926 (1936; reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1968), 156-61.
6. Al Rose, Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1974)
7. Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978).
8. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996);
9. Martha Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the 19th-Century South (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
10. Alecia P. Long, "The Great Southern Babylon: Sexuality, Race, and Reform in New Orleans, 1865-1920" (Ph.D. diss., University of Delaware, 2001).
11. Daily-Picayune, January 1, 1898;
12. Herbert Asbury, The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936), 323-25.
13. Behrman, Martin Behrman of New Orleans, 302-16;
14. Reynolds, Machine Politics in New Orleans, 156-61.
15. Ord. 1615 N.C.S., February 10, 1903.
16. - Architectural Art and Its Allies, August 1905. See also
17. Keith L. Bryant, "Cathedrals, Castles, and Roman Baths: Railway Station Architecture in the Urban South," Journal of Urban History (February 1976): 195-230.
18. Times-Democrat, June 1, 1908.
19. For elaboration on the idea of Storyville as an amusement park, see Emily Landau, " 'Spectacular Wickedness': New Orleans, Prostitution, and the Politics of Sex" (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, in progress). See also
20. George L'Hote v. City of New Orleans et al. (1897)
21. Civil District Court, Division B, Docket No. 54533, hereafter cited as "L'Hote v. City of New Orleans, 1897," New Orleans City Archives, New Orleans Public Library (NOCA NOPL);
22. Isadore Dyer, The Municipal Control of Prostitution in the United States (Brussels: H. Lamertin, 1900), 2-3.
23. Dyer, Municipal Control of Prostitution, 26.
24. Julian Ralph, "New Orleans, Our Southern Capitol," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February 1899, 364-65.
25. Daily-Picayune, June 28, 1900.
26. Daily-Picayune, January 18, 1908.
27. John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), 208-15.
28. Karen Leathem, " 'A Carnival According to Their Own Desires': Gender and Mardi Gras in New Orleans, 1870-1941" (Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994), 7, 214.
29. - Ted Ownby, Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 39, 167.
30. William Ivy Hair, Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976), 69-70.
31. D'Emilio and Freedman, Intimate Matters, 178-88.
32. Reid Mitchell, All on a Mardi Gras Day: Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), 2;
33. Ownby, Subduing Satan, 39, 167;
34. Hazelhurst Weekly Copiahan, March 15, 1884
35. Hair, Carnival of Fury, 76, 80.
36. Leathem, "A Carnival According to Their Own Desires," 185-91.
37. Pamela Arceneaux, "Guidebooks to Sin: The Blue Books of Storyville," Louisiana History (fall 1987): 397-405;
38. Rose, Storyville, 135-46.
39. Arceneaux, "Guidebooks to Sin," 399;
40. Joseph Roach, "Slave Spectacles and Tragic Octoroons: A Cultural Genealogy of Antebellum Performance," Theatre Survey (November 1992): 183.
41. Rose, Storyville, 134-46.
42. Landau, " 'Spectacular Wickedness': New Orleans, Prostitution, and the Politics of Sex, 1898-1917.
43. L'Hote v. City of New Orleans, 1897; Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1896.
44. W. C. Handy, Father of the Blues: An Autobiography (1941; reprint, New York: Collier, 1971), 77-78
45. Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 388.
46. The Sunday Sun article is reproduced in Rose, Storyville, 208.
47. "The Red Book - A Complete Directory of the Tenderloin," WRC THNOC; Wentworth's Souvenir Sporting Guide (New York: n.p., 1885)
48. Kathie D. Williams, "The 'Painted Inmate' and the 'Aggressive Savage': Sexual and Racial Segregation in Louisville, Kentucky" (paper presented at the Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History, Richmond, Virginia, June 15, 2000);
49. Ayers, Promise of the New South, 388.
50. - Leathem, "A Carnival According to Their Own Desires," 33.
51. Ibid.; New Orleans: What to See and How to See It: A Standard Guide to the City of New Orleans (New Orleans: The New Orleans Progressive Union Press, 1910).
52. Chamber of Commerce Records; Leathem, "A Carnival According to Their Own Desires," 213.
53. Chamber of Commerce Records; Will Irwin, "The American Saloon," excerpted in Rose, Storyville, 46.
54. Irwin, "The American Saloon." 38.
55. Thomas Mackey, "Red Lights Out: A Legal History of Prostitution, Disorderly Houses and Vice Districts, 1870-1917" (Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1984), 2, 15.
56. D'Emilio and Freedman, Intimate Matters, 210.
57. Act. No. 176, Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana at the Regular Session (Baton Rouge: n.p., 1908), 238-39.
58. Leathem, "A Carnival According to Their Own Desires," 226;
59. Reynolds, Machine Politics in New Orleans, 161.
60. Daily-Picayune, January 7, 1909
61. Leathem, "A Carnival According to Their Own Desires," 226.
62. The Item, February 10, 1910.
63. Ibid.; Chamber of Commerce Records; Ord. 6701 N.C.S., August 2, 1910.
64. The Item, October 30, 31, 1910.
65. Behrman, Martin Behrman of New Orleans, 304-5.
66. Louisiana, Prostitution: An Appeal to the People of Louisiana (New Orleans: Hauser Printing Co., 1913).
67. Segregation versus Morality (New Orleans: New Orleans City Federation of Clubs, ca. 1909);
68. "Resume of Legislation upon Matters Relating to Social Hygiene Considered by the Various States during 1914," Social Hygiene (December 1914), 105-6.
69. Allan Brandt, No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 (1985; reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 52-95.
70. Brandt, No Magic Bullet, 52-95;
71. Joseph Mayer, "The Passing of the Red Light District - Vice Investigations and Results," Social Hygiene (1918): 207.
72. Mark Thomas Connelly, The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980), 139.
73. - Behrman, Martin Behrman of New Orleans, 312.
74. Times-Picayune, February 22, 1917.
75. Warner, "New Orleans," 201.
76. Times-Picayune, January 27, 1921;
77. Reynolds, Machine Politics in New Orleans, 231.
78. See Sanford Jarrell, New Orleans - The Civilized and Lively City (n.p., ca. 1929);
79. "Tourism, Miscellany," Rare Vertical File, Louisiana Division, NOPL;
80. Edward Anderson, "Uncovering the Vice Cesspool of New Orleans," Real Detective, March 1935, 40-43, 66, 68;
81. Marquis W. Childs, "New Orleans is a Wicked City," Vanity Fair, November 1934, 62, 72.
82. Roach, "Slave Spectacles and Tragic Octoroons," 186.
83. See for example the pictorial "Mardi Gras 2000," Playboy, March 2000, 78-85