Police ledger, Nellie McElroy, 1913-1916

Police ledger, Nellie McElroy, 1913-1916

1913-1916

Nellie McElroy was Rochester’s first female police officer. This journal records her daily patrols of streets and places of entertainment, accounts of girls and women paroled to her, often at the behest of their fathers, and describes encounters with delinquent girls and prostitutes.

Account books

English

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Rochester (N.Y.)

Ledgers (account books)

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

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