May 08, 2025 - Sale 2703

Sale 2703 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN CRIME)
A group of approximately 200 mugshots, all depicting men, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1950-64.
A cross-section of men arrested in Philadelphia in the 1950s and early 1960s, including charges related to gambling, horses bookmaking, and illegal lottery. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 3½x4½ inches (8.9x11.4 cm.), each with a "Criminal Identification Unit" stamp from the Police Department Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the typed subject's name, address, crime, and identifying characteristics, on verso.