Archival and Printed Sources

Prostitution Registers of the Dutch city Breda

An overview of Dutch sources can be found on the Dutch website  

Archival Sources

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Family Search

• Antwerpen (Anvers): index de police de l'immigration, 1840-1930 and link to document numbers 

Felix Archief (Stad Antwerpen)

• 1.8 Archive public morality (Archief Openbare Zedelijkheid)

City Archive Brussels (Stadsarchief Brussel)

• Police archives:  
• general (regulations, posters)
  > request number: Pol. 280 (time period: 1840-1877); Pol. 268 (time period: 1865-1879)
• bulletins des étrangers (Brussel): 1879-1885
  > request number: Pol. M.M.436 - Pol. M.M 448
• reports suspected houses illegal prostitution etc
  > request number Pol. 281 (time period: 1844-1877)

City Archive St. Niklaas (Stadsarchief St. Niklaas) (link)

• Modern Archive St. Niklaas (numer. 4420).
  Police surveillance brothels during 1858-1887 with... 
• requests opening brothels, 
• medical reports prostitutes and soldiers
• organisations for criminalizing prostitution

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British Newspaper Archive (paid subscription)

Glasgow Women's Library

• Index Josephine Butler Society
  [see: Dutch blogpost]

Internet Archive

• The Man of Pleasure's Pocket Book of 1850 (London) 

The National Archives - London

• Magdalen hospital trust (Lambeth Archives)
  Information and archive
• Old Bailey Online
  About 19.745 court cases in London's Central Criminal Court, from 1674 - 1913.
• Studies in Scarlet
  Collection court cases on marriage and sexuality in UK and USA, 1815 - 1914. 

The National Archives UK

• Discovery National Archives

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New York

• A Gentleman's Directory (1870) - Archive NY Times (see also news article on Gothamist.com). Paper version available at NY Public Library. 

Printed Sources

• s.n., Le livre sans titre. Les Conséquences fatales de la masturbation (Paris 1830).
• Acton, W., Prostitution, in relation to public health : forming the introductory chapter to the second edition of the Treatise on syphilis (London 1851).
• Acton, W., Prostitution, Considered in Its Moral, Social & Sanitary Aspects, in London and Other Large Cities (London 1857).
• Mayhew, H., London Labour and London Poor (London 1851).
• Parent-Duchâtelet, A.J.B., De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris : considérée sous la rapport de l'hygiene publique, de la morale et de l'administration ; ouvrage appuyé de documents statistiques, piusés dans les archives de la Préfecture de police (Paris 1837).
• Sanger, W.M., The history of prostitution. Its extent, causes and effects throughout the world (New York 1858).
• Stead, W.T., 'Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon', Pall Mall Gazette (London 1885).  
• Wideawake, Paris and Brussels after dark. The Gentleman's night guide (2nd ed.; Paris 1883).