Soiled doves

Like many West Coast settlements, Seattle is a city built on sin. As a logging town and port city their main industry might have been lumber, but the businesses that kept them competitive were the ones that could keep the sailors and other labourers entertained. Madame Lou Graham was a businesswoman

The Cowboys - the 'soiled doves'

The Victorian era gave us many great inventions that we still use today - bicycles, Morse code, ice cream as we know it, and even the telephone. The era of Queen Victoria's reign, though, had some pretty bizarre happenings too. Such as ladies getting stuck in doorways because of their extra big dress skirts and constantly fainting as a result of very tight corsets. Also, the London fog did exist, and it comprised of nothing else than heavy pollution from coal mines and the city being in…

Soiled Dove in lace.

The Bird Cage Theater became known as one of the wildest places in the country. It catered to such characters as Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Bat Masterson. More than 120 bullet holes prove that.

Alabama's sex trade history includes tales of two big-hearted madams and a generous saloon owner, and the famed Lulu White, who was born in Selma but ran Mahogany Hall in New Orleans' Storyville red-light district.

Wall Art A Lady Tombstone, Arizona Summer 2009

No one knew that William Goldman led a double life. A model citizen and well-respected photographer in Reading, Pennsylvania at the turn of the century, he became treasurer of the State Photographers' Association and was a valued member of numerous social organisations. It wasn't until nearly 80 yea