?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(CRIME & PUNISHMENT) A collection of more than 250 crime images, including mugshots, crime scenes, and early portraits of officers. The collection features photographs from the full history of crime photography. Includes about 40 carte-de-visite mugshots or portraits of accused, many with descriptions of the figure and their crime; 5 tintypes; about 45 double mugshots, half of which are mounted, all with descriptions in a variety of formats; 4 cabinet card portraits of officers, including an image of Alphonse Bertillon, the "inventor" of the technique of describing individuals using photographs, measurements, and specific physical characteristics, plus 5 smaller cartes-de-visite and tintypes; 15 stereoviews of prisons including incarcerated women, interiors, yards, the hallways, some of which feature Sing Sing; 9 real photo postcards, 3 documenting arrested individuals, one dummy gun, a portrait, prisoners, dramatizing an arrest, and a card documenting a prisoner who was released after years (plus one snapshot of prisoners); 14 photographs of "staged" crime; 18 photographs of miscellaneous press images; 22 photographs or reproductions with thick hand-painting and editorial markings; 82 additional press photographs including 2 related to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Tintypes and albumen and silver prints, the images measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, some mounted, many with notations, in pencil and ink, or stamps, on recto and verso. 1880s-1940s
Provenance: The Estate of Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia
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