Demonstrator of bullet-proof vest, 1923 (Library of Congress)
Harris & Ewing glass-negative photograph, dated [1923], of a man in a vest standing while a uniformed police officer aims a pistol at him, with other officers and civilians watching. A demonstration of body armor.
- Date
- 1923
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- Library of Congress rights advisory: "No known restrictions on publication." Collection: Harris & Ewing Collection. Call number LC-H234- A-7007; reproduction number LC-DIG-hec-43388. A second frame is item 2016892635 (LC-DIG-hec-43389) with the same title and rights.
The Library’s title, “Demonstrator of bullet-proof vest,” is taken from unverified caption data on the negative sleeve, and the date [1923] is inferred from negatives in the same range. The photograph shows a man in a vest standing in an open space while a uniformed police officer points a pistol at him, with other officers and civilians looking on. The record does not give the place or the police department; the setting is presumably Washington, D.C., where Harris & Ewing worked, but the record does not say so.
The photograph is a demonstration of body armor that predates the vests the Bureau recovered in the 1930s. It records no crime.
Object: Glass-negative photograph
Maker: Harris & Ewing
Date: [1923]
Provenance: Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
Appears in: LC-DIG-hec-43388
