Two men in police costumes measuring a woman in a bathing suit, Venice Beach, ca.1920

Photograph of two men in police costumes measuring a woman in a bathing suit, Venice Beach, ca.1920. The woman stands at center in a dark bathing suit with lightly-colored straps on her shoulders and her right hand at her hip. Her lightly, curly hair is pinned back and her face has shadows on the right from the sun which shines down from the left. The men are dressed in long, dark police jackets and hats with star-shaped badges on their chests and facial hair drawn on their faces. They kneel in the sand as the one on the left measures her waist and the one on the right takes her height. A lightly-colored building with an arched roof stands behind them in the background.