Sometime around 1908, suffragists in Cincinnati staged a photo shoot to imagine what a women police officer might look like -if there was such a thing. They apparently were not aware that Marie Owens was an officer in the Chicago Police Department already. Then in 1910, Alice Stebbins Wells became a member of the Los Angeles force. You can see four pictures from the photo session at Mashable.
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Hah! This one is marked "Ideal" woman policeman (was the term "policewoman" not yet invented?)
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