(CRIME) Gathering of 40 carte de visite format mug shots fro

Sale 2335 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 1,500

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(CRIME)
Gathering of 40 carte-de-visite-format mug shots from various Police Departments in the U.S., with images of crooks who were busted for a variety of crimes, including "working the crowd at the Inauguration of Pres. Cleveland." Albumen (33) and silver (4) prints, 4 with a debossed numeric hand stamp on print recto and a few with numeric notations, in ink, on mount recto, and with the printed Bertillon system of identification mount verso; an addional 3 are reproductions; many with trimmed mounts. 1877-1904

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The debossed numbers that appear on print recto indicate that these mug shots relate to Thomas Byrnes' famous book, Professional Criminals of America (1886), in which 204 portraits were reproduced.