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Summary

English: Col. Sherrell, Supt. of Public Buildings and Grounds, has issued an order that bathing suits at the Wash[ington] bathing beach must not be over six inches above the knee ...

Author

National Photo Company Collection.

Title

English: Col. Sherrell, Supt. of Public Buildings and Grounds, has issued an order that bathing suits at the Wash[ington] bathing beach must not be over six inches above the knee ...

Description

English: Bill Norton the bathing beach policeman measuring distance between knee and bathing suit on woman, Washington, D.C.

Date

1922

Medium

1 photographic print.

Notes

LC-USZ62-99824 (b&w film copy neg.)
Call Number: LOT 12294, vol. 6, p. 31 <item> [P&P]

References

Washington Post http://washingtonpoststyle.tumblr.com/post/23693199077/d-c-policeman-bill-norton-measures-the-distance
CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-3445_162-10016879-12.html
Ghosts of DC http://ghostsofdc.org/2012/01/18/bathing-suit-police-at-the-tidal-basin/
shorpy http://www.shorpy.com/node/1070

Source

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3b45864.
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