344 •(CRIME)
Massive Police Department album containing 82 photographs relating to local toughs in Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia, comprising 50 mugshot diptychs and 32 standing mug shots.
Including alleged drug sellers, burglars, extortionists, robbers, rackets, blackmailers, and those impersonating policemen. Silver prints, the images measuring 3x5¼ to 6x9 inches (7.6x13.3 to 15.2x22.9 cm.), the mounts 16¾x13 inches (42.5x33 cm.), mounted recto/verso, each with a handwritten caption below the photograph. Thick elephant folio, ¼ leather, cloth. 1933-36

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In the iconography of mug shots, photographs in which alleged con men and crafy criminals are standing are uncommon, and capture the "film noir" nature of police department imagery.