112 198
174
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(CAR CRASHES)
Group of 5 photographs of car accidents,
including a truck that drove into a bar, a flipped
sedan, 2 cars hanging precariously out of the 7th
floor of a multi-floor garage, and a van that ran
up on a curb. Silver prints, sizes ranging from
8
1
/
4
x6
1
/
2
to 7
1
/
2
x10 inches (21x16.5 to 19.1x25.4
cm.), and the reverse, each with cropping
notations,in grease pencil or in ink,on recto,and
with the related newspaper clipping,date stamps,
and notations, in unknown hands, on verso.
1963-77
[300/450]
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(ORGANIZED CRIME)
St. Louis County album with mug shots and Wanted Posters, comprising 35 individual mug shots,
including organized crime figure John Spica, plus miscellaneous pictures of the tools of murder and
police sketches, and hundreds of Master Copies of Wanted Posters (on photographic paper).With
more than 450 frontal photographs of offenders wanted by the police. Silver print diptych mugshots,
3
1
/
2
x5 inches (8.9x12.7 cm.), and Master Wanted Posters measure 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.).
Thick 4to, 3-bolt masonite binding. 1962-66
[2,000/3,000]
From the Collection of John Binder.
WITH
—
Album entitled UNITRAIN Metropolitan Police Dept., St. Louis, Missouri with more than
250 frontal images (on photostatic paper) of criminals; with physical descriptions and information about
numerous top organized crime figures. Oblong 4to, metallic clip binder. 1960s-80s.
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