Special Police Woman and The San Diego Bathing Suit Ordinance of 1917, 1917

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Title:
Special Police Woman and the San Diego Bathing Suit Ordinance of 1917
Dates:
1917
Creators:
L. J. Wilde, President of the Common Council of the City of San Diego Councilmen Bacon, Bard, Bruschi and Moore James Patrick, Acting Chief of Police Ellen Browning Scripps E. B. Scripps Mary B. Ritter Eleanor B. Parkes Mrs. F. T. Scripps Flora W. Atkinson Florence B. Young Mary L. Dailey Jean E. Bell Harriet B. Haskell May K. Baer Wm. E. Ritter J. C. Harper Frederick L. Brown May L. Wise Ellis L. Michael Margaret R. Knudsen Eleanore McG Mills Laura S. Crandall Mrs. Gertrude Leong Mrs. Madeline Caldwell Theo. S. McLaughlin Jessie McLaughlin J. S. Claye John A. Young C. F. Atkinson Tillie Genter Louise D. Atkinson John N. Haskell R. W. Tillinghast Mary S. Snyder Scripps Mills Atkinson Ritter La Jolla Women's Club Board of Directors Bruschi Moore Bard Bacon Common Council of the City of San Diego Police Department, City of San Diego La Jolla Women's Club Civic Department Life Guards Lifeguards J. Spencer Voorhees L. F. Burdick Abraham Rhoads Mrs. A. B. Rhoads W. C. Crandall Voorhees Burdick Rhoads Crandall Tillinghast Haskall Claye Young Mrs. L. P. Scripps Mrs. J. P. Scripps Jane E. Bell Councilmen Bacon, Bard, Buschi and Moore Miss Lucille Jeardeau
Abstract:
Extent:
five separate documents, including ordinances, petitions and correspondence
Language:
Preferred citation:

Special Police Woman and the San Diego Bathing Suit Ordinance of 1917. San Diego City Clerk's Archives

Background

Scope and content:

Five documents including a draft ordinance, official passed Ordinance 7056: An Ordinance Regulating Wearing of Bathing Suits in Certain Portions of La Jolla Park, a petition signed by numerous citizens, a letter from the San Diego Police regarding the appointment of a special Police Woman in the La Jolla community of the City of San Diego to enforce the ordinance, and a Message from Mayor Vetoing Ordinance Regulating The Wearing Of Bathing Suits Upon The Public Streets of La Jolla" for being too broad and lacking form.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid created by San Diego City Clerk's Archives staff.
Date Prepared:
1917
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.

Access and use

Restrictions:

municipal archives; public records

Terms of access:

public records

Preferred citation:

Special Police Woman and the San Diego Bathing Suit Ordinance of 1917. San Diego City Clerk's Archives

Location of this collection:
202 C Street
San Diego, CA 92101, US
Contact:
(619) 236-7216
sely@sandiego.gov
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