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.
Hah! This one is marked "Ideal" woman policeman (was the term "policewoman" not yet invented?)
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