Capt. Edna Pitkin (Police Force) – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Capt. Edna Pitkin (Police Force). An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Capt. Edna Pitkin (Police Force)
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Captain Edna Pitkin is named here as a woman in the police force, a rare role in the early twentieth century, when most departments employed women only in limited positions such as matrons or juvenile workers. The title comes from caption information written by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency whose glass negatives were later donated to the Library of Congress, and that identification has not been independently verified. The record gives no date, so the picture is best understood within the wider period when women were first pressing for police jobs, and the glass negative format itself points to the years before roll film became common.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,199 × 7,561 px · prints to 17 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34625 |
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