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An "Enemy Against Society?": Sex Work and Victorian Ideals in Sandpoint, Idaho (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2006, the state of Idaho began its largest archaeological project to date: the Sandpoint Archaeology Project. Emerging from 500 units, over 550,000 artifacts tell the story of the town’s “Restricted District,” home to two houses of sex work, two saloons, and a dance hall. The adjacent proximity of a brothel and a bordello allows...