Oct 17, 2014 - Sale 2361

Sale 2361 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
(CRIME)
A massive album from Folsom Prison describing prisoners received at the California State Prison, May 1909-December 1914. With approximately 2,100 mugshots and entries, detailing the missteps of a motley crowd of robbers, murderers, rapists, forgers, embezzlers, and panderers, primarily depicting white males, but also including some minorities. Silver prints, each approximately 2 1/2x2 inches (6.4x5.1 cm.), mounted recto/verso, usually 3 to a side, and with the prisoner's name, crime, age, physical description, occupation, place of origin, criminal history, and prison term typed into the red and blue-ruled sheets, sometimes with handwritten notations, in ink and pencil. Folio, buckram cloth with a twin-bolt binding; worn, backstrip perished. 1909-14