Block plan, Eagle Street, Longreach

Block plan, Eagle Street, Longreach, south side of Eagle Street between Swan and Duck Streets. Queensland State Archives, 109249.

Queensland State Archives, 109249

A pestiferous place of pollution, Truth (Brisbane), 2 October 1904

A pestiferous place of pollution, Truth (Brisbane), 2 October 1904. A typically scurrilous newspaper article emphasising the racial composition of prostitution in Queensland.

Plan of the Fortitude Valley police station, c1903

Plan of the Fortitude Valley police station, c1903. Queensland Police Museum

Her Majesty’s Prison for Women opened in October 1903 and was the first purpose built prison for women in Queensland. It replaced the women’s prison at Toowoomba and smaller lock-up facilities at Fortitude Valley. The latter was used to hold prisoners serving sentences of less than one month, those awaiting trial, or those being transferred to Toowoomba. The new Fortitude Valley facility was erected in 1889.

Queensland Police Museum

Antonio’s brothel in Albert Street, Brisbane, 1905

Antonio’s brothel in Albert Street, Brisbane, 1905, an alleged brothel operating under the guise of an Oyster saloon. Truth (Brisbane) 28 May 1905

Bawdy houses, 1896-99

Section 231, Criminal Code Act, 1899 (63 Vic No 9) and A digest of the Statutory Law in force in Queensland on the first day of January 1896, with a table of the statutes, prepared by

A Japanese prostitute and an Aboriginal woman, The Bulletin, 1904

A Japanese prostitute and an Aboriginal woman in Northern Australia, The Bulletin, 7 January 1904.

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