Apr 19, 2018 - Sale 2474

Sale 2474 - Lot 290

Price Realized: $ 1,105
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(AMERICAN CRIME--MUGSHOTS)
A group of approximately 30 mugshots, including some Latino and African American men, from the 1940s and earlier.
Comprised of offenders from both the East and West coasts of the United States, most accused of crimes of robbery, theft, and fraud, with the occasional assault or "sodomy" charge. Silver (28), albumen (4), and printing-out paper (one) prints, the images measuring 5 1/2x4 inches (14x10.2 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, 5 on mounts measuring slightly larger, 19 on mounts measuring 6x5 1/2 inches (15.2x14 cm.), most with printed, typed, or handwritten notations, in ink, on mount recto and verso, or on print or mount verso. 1910s-40s

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