🖤✊🏿📷#ArtIsAWeapon "TEFLON MA" #AnnieGreen (ca 1900s). Photographed in police custody. Barbary Coast*, San Francisco, California. Reposted from @shelovesblackart . OFFICAL CITIATION: "Annie Green---an old time Negro pickpocket; her victims were all white men and the police could never get any one to prosecute her as they would not admit to having anything to do with a "nIgger." . Collection: Cook (Jessie Brown) Scrapbooks Documenting San Francisco History and Law Enforcement, ca 1895-1936. University of California-Berkeley, Bancroft Library . The Barbary Coast was the red light district of San Francisco during the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th. The area was replete with saloons, gambling dens, brothels, dance halls, jazz clubs, bars and variety shows. The Barbary Coast had a reputation for lawlessness. . The Barbary Coast borrowed its name.from the Barbary Coast of North Africa, a base for pirates and slave trader and stopping pint for sailors known for prostitution and seedy entertainment . . .. #blackartcurators #blackartcollectors #blackartlovers #photography #photographs #vintagephoto #vintagephotography #blackhistory #shelovesblackart #barbarycoast. #19thcentury #20thcentiry #pickpocket #streetlife #portraiture #portraits #TraScapades #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/CEVdwJEA3Jc/?igshid=3tsg8fd2ber