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Mary Queen /January 15, 2023 by Beth Winegarner

Today in 1870, local teen Mary Queen was sentenced to the SF Magdalen Asylum for working in a brothel. The @sfexaminer only took enough time to ruin her name in the paper before moving on to a petition against the City's Grading Company bill. pic.twitter.com/w8MtXHstfP

— Beth Winegarner (@bethwinegarner) January 15, 2023
← Bertha Ward Amelia Mendoza →
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