![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 ...](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTAvY29sLXNoZXJyZWxsLXN1cHQtb2YtcHVibGljLWJ1aWxkaW5ncy1hbmQtZ3JvdW5kcy1oYXMtaXNzdWVkLWFuLW9yZGVyLXRoYXQtNDA4NDVhLTEwMjQuanBn/320/275/jpg "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 ...")
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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 ...
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Photo shows Bill Norton, the bathing beach "cop", using a tape measure to determine the distance between a woman's knee and the bottom of her bathing suit on a beach in Washington, D.C.
In album: Washington, D.C., 1 June 1922 to 30 June 1922, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company, v. 6, p. 31, no. 19126.
Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).
Original neg. LC-F8-19191
During the administrations of Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, the National Photo Company supplied photographs of current news events in Washington, D.C., as a daily service to its subscribers. It also prepared sets of pictures on popular subjects and undertook special photographic assignments for local businesses and government agencies. The bulk of the images were created between 1909 and 1932. The photographic files of the National Photo Company, including an estimated 80,000 images (photographic prints and corresponding glass negatives), were acquired by the Library from its proprietor Herbert E. French in 1947.
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