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 "wide open" in Lancaster, with the encouragement of city officials. Learn what it was like to live in a brothel and see how Fair Elise's life turns out. You might be surprised. 

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 officials. Learn what it was like to live in a brothel and see how Fair Elise's life turns out. You might be surprised. 

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 about this young working woman?

Writer and Producer: M. Alison Kibler
Narrator: Rachel Rubins
Research Team: Jayden LaCoe, Kylie Loughney, Rachel Rubins, Dylan Sykes
Geneological research by Hope Glidden
Financial Support from the Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster at Franklin & Marshall College
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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 officers. What do the unpublished Vice Files add to this publicity about Jennie Taylor? This episode focuses on how race shaped the public and secret sides of Jennie Taylor.

Writer and Producer: M. Alison Kibler
Narrator: Rachel Rubins
Research Team: Jayden LaCoe, Kylie Loughney, Rachel Rubins, Dylan Sykes
Geneological research by Hope Glidden
Financial Support from the Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster at Franklin & Marshall College
Additional Support from LancasterHistory

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 Kibler
Narrator: Rachel Rubins
Research Team: Jayden LaCoe, Kylie Loughney, Rachel Rubins, Dylan Sykes
Financial Support from the Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster at Franklin & Marshall College
Additional Support from LancasterHistory

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. Alison Kibler
Narrator: Dylan Sykes
Research Team: Jayden LaCoe, Kylie Loughney, Rachel Rubins, Dylan Sykes
Financial Support from the Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster at Franklin & Marshall College
Additional Support from LancasterHistory