In 1897, Sidney Story, an alderman in New Orleans, put forth an ordinance confining vice to a 16-square-block area outside the French Quarter. The area was named Storyville after him, and has been ...

New Orleans' Storyville, a notorious Red Light district, is home to the brothels and bars that provide the only venues for jazz, since African American performers are banned from performing at ...

Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images If you were sauntering through the packed-dirt streets of back-of-town New Orleans in the 1910s, anywhere between Storyville and Gert Town, chances are you ...

Bellocq was an American professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century. He is remembered for his haunting photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans.