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(AMERICAN MUG SHOTS--CRIME "LEDGER") An oversized ledger-like album titled "Security Dept.," with over 500 mug shots from the Oregon State Penitentiary. Each photographic diptych is mounted to plain sheets, usually 6 per page, sometimes recto/verso. The album is organized by alphabet tabs, and the subjects are arranged by their surname. Includes mostly men, but also some women with nicely curled hair; most of the crimes appear to be related to forgery or passing forged checks. Silver prints, each approximately 2 3/4x4 1/2 inches (7x11.4 cm.), each with a typed label below the image with the subject's name, their location, vocation, crime, sentence, and a physical description. Large folio, 17 1/2x14 3/4 inches (44.5x37.5 cm.), green cloth with leather corners and a stenciled white-lettered title; metal post binding. 1955-58
From the Collection of Mark Michaelson. with--An album with approximately 124 mug shots from the Oregon State Penitentiary, each a head-on shot and side view shot, and each with a mounted typed label below the image, including the subject's name, the date, their crime, sentence, age, and place of origin; many also wtih the notation "Discharged," in ink. Silver prints, each approximately 2 3/4x4 1/2 inches (7x11.4 cm.), mounted recto/verso on plain sheets with an added rule, in pencil; there are 4 on the front pastedown mounted upside down; with a sheet laid in with a list of corresponding names, some typed and some in ink. Small folio album with a tied binding and a gilt title "Scrap book;" corners rubbed. 1950s.
