Mae West: '27 Troubles

Just concluded in Manhattan was a very successful exhibition based on some episodes of New York City history during Prohibition: "Onstage Outlaws: Mae West and Texas Guinan in a Lawless Era."
• • This panel shows images from Mae West's trial and incarceration in New York. The text shown is Mae West's essay penned after her jail term in 1927. A magazine paid the actress $1,000 to write an article. Mae donated the sum to the prison library since she noticed the female inmates had no good books to read.

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Courting Mae West
Mae West
• • Illustration • • Mae West • • 1927 montage from "Onstage Outlaws: Mae West and Texas Guinan in a Lawless Era" • •
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