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20 paź 2016 · A six-seat privy complex associated with a parlor house (ca. 1880–1901), densely filled with household items, provides insight into life behind the red lights. Domestic deposits from the prostitutes’ neighbors were also recovered, providing comparative collections.
3 kwi 2015 · Privies are gold mines. The privy (or outhouse, jakes, house of office, etc.), was the standard urban and rural toilet right into the 20th century in the U.S. Since they were used for all sorts of deposits, they have revealed much about the material culture of the past.
A six-seat privy complex associated with a parlor house (ca. 1880–1901), densely filled with household items, provides insight into life behind the red lights. Domestic deposits from the prostitutes’ neighbors were also recovered, providing comparative collections.
4 cze 2020 · Analysis of privy vault architecture reveals that misguided sanitary perceptions affected the ordinances pertaining to sanitary issues and the compliance of the ordinances by the public, which were manifested in the way privy vaults were constructed.
This thesis presents an analysis of an artifact assemblage recovered from a turn-of-the-century privy feature in Downtown Los Angeles in conjunction with historic records to determine whether the privy users embraced the Victorian values of their time and whether they consumed products that became popular during the Victorian era and that signal...
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