Career
She operated out of a large mansion at 221 North Basin Street, in New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1907 and 1917. Foreign most or all of that time, she co-owned the structure with another madam, Jessie Brown. A 1911-1912 edition of the Storyville Blue Book indicates that the phone number of White"s establishment was 1663 Main.
Many of White"s charges were advertised as talented singers of bawdy ballads in addition to their regular duties as prostitutes.
A photograph by East. J. Bellocq (circa 1912) of one of her girls, one Marguerite Griffin, is frequently reproduced in texts about Storyville.
