1900s Elegant Risque Women Brothel Workers Prostitutes Photos For Sale

Found together in a one hundred year old photographer’s studio in Brownsville PA, a booming 19thc river town just outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

Entirely unidentified, we can only read the details. The women are unusually vulnerable in their portraits & scantily clad. Many bare their shoulders, some coyly look back, one young woman wearing nothing more than lingerie / dressing garments & averting her eyes so tenderly that it becomes uncomfortable.

It is easy to imagine these women, of so many ages and backgrounds, to be under the employ of a high end brothel.

(5) 3.5 x 5.5” RPPCs w/ development spots & one corner crease, (4) 3.75 x 4.5” unmounted silver gelatin photos, (2) 4 x 6” sepia photos & 5 x 7” masked portrait w/ tight ringlets & pearls (soiling).