Colonel C.O. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Building and Grounds issued an order that bathing suits at the Tidal Basin bathing beach must not be over 6 inches about the knee. Bill Norton, the bathing beach policeman, measuring the distance between the knee and the bathing suit in the summer 1922. United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.cph.3b45864.
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Colonel C.O. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Building and Grounds issued an order that bathing suits at the Tidal Basin bathing beach must not be over 6 inches about the knee. Bill Norton, the bathing beach policeman, measuring the distance between the knee and the bathing suit in the summer 1922. United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.cph.3b45864.
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