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Composite portrait of Alice Stebbins Wells and Aletha Gilbert, two of the first female police women, 1910

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Title	Composite portrait of Alice Stebbins Wells and Aletha Gilbert, two of the first female police women, 1910
Description	Photographic composite portrait of Alice Stebbins Wells and Aletha Gilbert, two of the first female police women, 1910. Wells is at left and is wearing a long dark jacket over a dark dress. She has a lace collar and a large police badge is affixed to her lapel at right. She is wearing a hat that resembles a scarf wrapped around her head with a large flower decoration at right. The badge in the photo is #398 Los Angeles Police; later, this badge was replaced with Policewoman #1 after Alice was accused of using her husband's badge to ride the street car. Back of photoprint reads "One of the first policewomen, Lucy Gray 1910". Gilbert is at right and is also wearing a dark jacket and dress. She has a similar badge. She is wearing a broad-brimmed hat with a large flower at right. Her mother, Lucy Gray, was hired as Los Angeles's first female jailer in 1888. Back of photoprint reads "One of the first Police Women, Alethe Gilbert 1910".
Subject	Wells, Alice Stebbin; Gilbert, Aletha; Los Angeles Police Department
Subject (file heading)	Los Angeles -- Police Department
Subject (lcsh)	Police
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	1910
Author	Policewoman in the world
Contributor	Stowe, Officer
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1910
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	3 photographs : photoprints, photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 13 cm., 10 x 13 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints negatives (photographic) photographs
Accession number	14129; 14129.1; 14129.2
Call number	CHS-14129; CHS-14129.1; CHS-14129.2
Legacy record ID	chs-m3907; USC-0-1-1-3996; USC-0-1-1-3997
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-14129; CHS-14129.1; CHS-14129.2

Title	Page 1
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Archival file	chs_Volume20/CHS-14129.tiff

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