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Scrapbooks relating to Prostitution


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 10/50

Held at: Women's Library

Title: Scrapbooks relating to Prostitution

Date(s): 1929-2001

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 Albums

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This scrapbook consists of press cuttings on the subject of prostitution from national and regional newspapers, for the years 1929-2001 (only five cuttings dated before the 1970s).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from TWL Printed Collections, Jul 2006.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The Women's Library also holds a large amount of further archive material relating to prostitution and trafficking of women, including the papers of many campaigning organisations. See in particular Archives Strand 3: Societies for the Abolition of State Regulation of Prostitution and Strand 4: Societies for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons. These strands include: 3AMS Records of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene; 3JBL Josephine Butler Letters Collection; 3NAR Records of the National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts; 4IBS Records of the International Bureau for Suppression of Traffic in Persons; 4NVA Records of the National Vigilance Association. See also 10/03 Scrapbook [on women's suffrage and the Contagious Diseases Acts].

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 04/04/2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Prostitution | Social problems
Scrapbooks | Albums (documents) | Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Women | Sex | Sex distribution

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