LibrarySearch is the place to search for books at Bates, Colby, and Bowdoin -- and beyond.
These are terms that describe what a book is about. Using the Advanced Search function in LibrarySearch, you can combine any of these with other terms, such as geographic terms like (Maine OR New England OR Atlantic States), or (History), or kinds of sources like (bibliography OR guidebooks) or (correspondence OR diaries)
Taken from The Old and the Prudish: an Examination of Sex, Sexuality, and Queerness in Library of Congress Classification (2022).
Historical Sex Work by Though you will probably start with books at Bates, Colby, or Bowdoin, don't end there.
The underworld sewer : a prostitute reflects on life in the trade, 1871-1909 by 
Madeleine; an autobiography
Alice: memoirs of a Barbary Coast prostitute
Working girls : an American brothel, circa 1892, the secret photographs of William Goldman by 
Working sex sex workers write about a changing industrySubject headings (listed in the Secondary Sources section) can be combined with the Genre facet to find Biographies, Pictorial works, etc.
For a full list, see U.S. History Research Guide - Primary Sources.
bawdy-house, red light district, house of ill fame, procuress, bordello, disorderly house
the social evil, white slavery, lewdness, vice, soliciting, immoral purposes
public woman, crib girl, cottage girl, sporting girl, a woman of the town
