This is a jpg of a copy from an original photo of a woman believed to have been a prostitute in Fort Smith in the Row area of Fort Smith, probably sometime in the first decade of the 20th century. When the furniture in Miss Laura's was sold sometime in the 1960s in an estate sale, this was one of many photos found in a chest of drawers or desk by the auctioneers. The Row area was the vice district in Fort Smith. First Street in the Row was lined with houses of prostitution. Commercial sex was legal and regulated there from 1907 to 1923.

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