Two colored girls, of the soiled variety,…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

Two colored girls, of the soiled variety, in imitation of their white sisters, were yester- day promenading Broadway, attired in mother hubbards and puffing away on cigarettes. There is no other town in the west where this class of humanity are shown as much liberty as in Silver City. If there is no ordinance to prohibit such vulgarity one should be passed immed- iately.