S07006FP-GRIFFIN  -  "Marguerite Griffin"

Assemblage on vintage camera film plate holder.  Size 6" x 9".    Photograph by E. J. Bellocq, photographer of prostitutes in Storyville, New Orleans, circa 1912.   Features Victorian and vintage fabrics and laces, metal and painted Victorian buttons.   Marguerite Griffin had a talent for knowing and singing hundreds of bawdy tunes in Minnie White’s Brothel, located at 221 Basin Street in New Orleans.   $75