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A massive album from Folsom Prison describing prisoners received at the California State Prison,
May 1909-December 1914.With approximately 2,100 mugshots and entries, detailing the missteps
of a motley crowd of robbers, murderers, rapists, forgers, embezzlers, and panderers, primarily
depicting white males, but also including some minorities. Silver prints, each approximately 2
1
/
2
x2
inches (6.4x5.1 cm.), mounted recto/verso, usually 3 to a side, and with the prisoner’s name, crime,
age, physical description, occupation, place of origin, criminal history, and prison term typed into
the red and blue-ruled sheets, sometimes with handwritten notations, in ink and pencil. Folio,
buckram cloth with a twin-bolt binding; worn, backstrip perished. 1909-14
[7,000/10,000]
