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A look back at female police officers

Album Description

How a Woman Policeman Would Look Making an Arrest (1909)

I recently found these Bain News Service photos which all depict female police officers. Unfortunately there's no context regarding the photos - it appears they are depicting an idea more than a reality. (Note: captions state "Suffragist posed in police uniform to illustrate woman police concept" It's interesting that photographer would note that she's a 'Suffragist.') See another album "More images of female police officers" for training photos from another source. 

Woman policeman with gun feigning arrest of a man

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2014684246/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published: [no date recorded on caption card]
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes: -  Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
-  Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
-  General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ggbain 04252 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.04252

Policewomen - the woman "Cop" (a dream). Suffragette posed to illus. woman police concept - Cincinnatii

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2007677108/

Reference note

Created / Published: 1909 Sept. 23.
Notes: -  LC-B2-844-10 - no card in file.
-  Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item.
-  George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
-  Caption card tracings: Shelf.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: cph 3b09899 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b09899

[Suffragist posed in police uniform to illustrate woman police concept, Cincinnati, Ohio]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/90712219/

Reference note

Created / Published: [ca. 1908]
Subject Headings: -  Women--Employment--Ohio--Cincinnati--1900-1910
-  Policewomen--Ohio--Cincinnati--1900-1910
-  Suffragists--Ohio--Cincinnati--1900-1910
Genre: Portrait photographs--1900-1910
Photographic prints--1900-1910
Notes: -  George Grantham Bain Collection.
Digital Id: cph 3c01578 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c01578

Capt. McKinney & policewomen

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2014707302/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph shows Captain Charley McKinney with the Police Women's Reserve.
Contributor Names: Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published: [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes: -  Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
-  Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
-  General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ggbain 27139 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.27139