Police prostitute decoy wig

Titles: Police prostitute decoy wig (Supplied title)

Description: This champagne blonde woman's wig was worn by a female Saint Paul Police Officer acting as a decoy sex worker in the 1970s. A Ramsey County Judge had ruled that in order to avoid being discriminatory, the Police Department would have to arrest male customers as well as female sex workers. The female officer who wore this wig volunteered for the undercover work and was very successful; on her first day on Selby Avenue near Western Avenue she made sixty arrests. The wig is just longer than shoulder length in a semi-shag cut, worn curled.

Dates

• 1974 - 1989 (Use)

Creation

• source: Saint Paul (Minn.), Police Department
• owned/used by: Bailey, Carolen Fay Gesin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1991.429.7

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 19 centimeters diameter (approximate)
• 40 centimeters length (approximate)

Subjects

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