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(BOSTON)
Pocket-size mug shot album with 30 photographs of hard-boiled criminals picked up in Boston,
including Whitey Bulger and members of his vicious circle. Silver prints, 3x4
1
/
4
inches (7.6x10.8
cm.), stapled to ruled sheets, with handwritten notations, in ink, below the photographs. 8vo, with
one leaf and rear cover detached. 1970-1971
[600/900]
From the Collection of John Binder.
A rogue’s gallery of local bad guys who could easily have been the inspiration for Ben Affleck’s film,TheTown
(2010).The consignor has done his homework and provided documentation about which men were associated
with organized crime organizations in Boston’s colorful past (as opposed to being“common criminals”).Included
areThomasW. Nee, James Manville (or Mantville), Patrick Nee, James Murphy and Paul McGonigal.
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