Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of two men in police costumes measuring a woman in a bathing suit, Venice Beach, ca.1920. The woman stands at center in a dark bathing suit with lightly-colored straps on her shoulders and her right hand at her hip. Her lightly, curly hair is pinned back and her face has shadows on the right from the sun which shines down from the left. The men are dressed in long, dark police jackets and hats with star-shaped badges on their chests and facial hair drawn on their faces. They kneel in the sand as the one on the left measures her waist and the one on the right takes her height. A lightly-colored building with an arched roof stands behind them in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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