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Peter C. Baldwin

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A Short History of the Public Restroom

How come it's so hard to go in sweet privacy when you're out and about?

by Peter C. Baldwin, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on November 5, 2021

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Women adjusting their makeup and hair in a women's restroom in the 1940s.

In the Ladies’ Loo

Gender-segregated bathrooms tell a story about who is and who is not welcome in public life.

by Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza via JSTOR Daily on January 22, 2025

A red circle with a slash through it over a pair of puckered lips, superimposed on anti-kissing newspaper articles. Screenshots via Newspapers.com, lips vector by Vecteezy.

The Woman Who Fought to End the 'Pernicious' Scourge of Kissing

New understandings of how disease spread informed Imogene Rechtin's ill-fated 1910 campaign to ban a universal human practice.

by John Last via Smithsonian on May 31, 2022

A locked public bathroom

Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go?

For decades, U.S. cities have been closing or neglecting public restrooms, leaving millions with no place to go.

by Elizabeth Yuko via CityLab on November 5, 2021

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