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Each episode opens the secret files of anti-vice investigators to piece together the portrait of a person from the hidden history of prostitution, gambling, and drinking in Lancaster, Pennsylvania around 1900.
A century ago Lancaster was known as a "wide open" city for prostitution, gambling, drinking because city officials encouraged and participated in vice. An undercover investigation of vice in 1913 left behind extensive records documenting the personalities and politics of Lancaster's underground economy. Using these files, this podcast unearths the surprising variety of people who struggled and sometimes succeeded in vice.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 66 days
Average audio length:
27 minutes
English
United States
10 episodes
since March 8, 2024
episodic
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No one was surprised when there was a rough house at the "chop suey" restaurant in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, around 1900. Fights, vandalism, commercial sex, and gambling were regular features of the restaurant, boarding house, and laundries that made up this city's Chinatown. Find out…
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Brothel keeper Mary Stence said that the key to her success was "living quiet." But, in many ways, this was misleading. This podcast explores the tumultuous and quiet aspects of her life and work around 1900.
Written by Alison Kibler
Research assistance from Ainsley McClure and Anna Chiar…
Did Howard Shenk, a minister's son, rape a young German woman in 1893? This episode tries to answer that question.
Written by Alison Kibler
The narrator is Anna Barrett.
Sound engineering by the Institute of the Mechanical Surround and Vincent Smaldone.
We thank the staff of LancasterHistory …
Dr. Kline was a respected physician in Lancaster, Pennsylvania around 1900. At the same time, he also worked for the brothels in town, as other doctors did. He provided abortions for sex workers and other Lancaster women. Listen to find out how he ended up in the Eastern State Penitentiary in Phila…
This is the first of two episodes about Fair Elise, a toddler who spent several years in a brothel. She ended up in a brothel in 1913 because of her parents' financial struggles and illnesses. At this point, brothels ran "wide open" in Lancaster, with the encouragement of city offici…
This is the second of two episodes about Fair Elise, a toddler who spent several years in a brothel. Listen to this episode after Fair Elise: Child of the Brothel. She ended up in a brothel in 1913 because of her parents' financial struggles and illnesses. At this point, brothels ran "wid…
The local newspapers of Lancaster, Pennsylvania wrote often about Jennie Taylor, the daughter of a formerly enslaved man. She made the papers when she was attacked by boyfriends, when she was arrested for public drunkenness or for running a "disorderly" house, and when she fought police o…
Barbara Foreman worked as a tobacco wrapper in the city in the early 1900s. She was part of a growing number of wage-earning women who traveled the streets downtown, where theaters, cafes and dance halls offered enticing respite from the drudgery of work. What do the secret Vice Files tell us abou…
Kennedy Eckert was a bell boy and a local billiards champion in Lancaster. Although these titles hint at Eckert's proximity to gambling and commercial sex, the unpublished Vice Files reveal surprising details about Eckert's experiences in the underworld of vice. Writer and Producer: M. A…
Police arrested Amanda Breneman when they raided her brothel in 1914. In this case, unlike most other cases of women arrested for keeping "bawdy" houses, Amanda Breneman actually went to jail. The secret Vice Files help explain this surprising twist.Writer and Producer: M. Alison KiblerNa…
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