[Ads-l] Antedating of "Red Light District"

[James Landau]

On  Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:50:07 Zone+0000
"Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote
<begin quote> red light district (OED 1894)
1893 Times (Louisville) 7 Mar. 2/2 (Newspapers.com)
They rolled away into the red-light district.
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(Incidental note: from JL  in the 1960's and 1970's my father was a copy editor on this newspaper.)  

>From Google Books (I searched on “red light district” restricted to 19th Century and found the following on the second page:
Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. United States, n.p, 1882
 Page 332 
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New Jersey---Orange W. C. T. U. hasa remarkable record of good work.  They maintain the breakfast rescue mission and Fair Have rescue home.  Atlantic City shelter has cared for forty women,m ten babies and rescued three girls from the red light district.
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-James A. Landau
James Landau
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