Scrapbooks relating to Prostitution

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 106 10/50
Held at	: Women's Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/Library/Collections/Collection-highlights/The-Womens-Library ›
Full title	: Scrapbooks relating to Prostitution
Date(s)	: 1929-2001
Level of description	: fonds
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 & 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

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].

Publication note:

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