Kelley's Museum
This file appears in: Diseases of Men: Venereal diseases were common in early Spokane, and desperate suffers sought out quack treatments.
Offices for the treatment of venereal disease would often present themselves as museums, as in this advertisement. Inside, wax figures would show the progress of venereal disease in gruesome detail.
This file appears in: Diseases of Men: Venereal diseases were common in early Spokane, and desperate suffers sought out quack treatments.
Diseases of Men: Venereal diseases were common in early Spokane, and desperate suffers sought out quack treatments.
Early Spokane was a town full of working men and working women. For laborers throughout the region the city was a refuge and a pleasuring ground. Miners, loggers, and agricultural workers would come…