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Jun 10 2012
3:02 am

Mug shot of Charles Ponzi, ca. 1910.

Posted 11 months ago
#1910s #mug shot #criminal #swindler #charles ponzi #italian-american #mustach #crime #ponzi scheme #robbery #vintage #portrait

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Jun 5 2012
8:23 am

Mug shots of murderers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, 1924.

Source: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)

Posted 11 months ago
#1920s #mug shot #murderers #murder #vintage #portrait #history #crime #criminal #nathan leopold #richard loeb #leopold and loeb

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Jun 5 2012
12:44 am

Mug shot of Laura Bullion, member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang, 1893.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 11 months ago
#1890s #19th century #USA #badass #butch cassidy #history #laura bullion #old west #outlaw #portrait #victorian #victorians #vintage #wild bunch #wild west #mug shot #criminal #crime #outlaws

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Jun 4 2012
11:04 pm

Mug shot of the later Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, following his arrest by Swiss police for lack of identification papers, 19 June 1903.

Source: State Archives of the Canton of Berne

Posted 11 months ago
#1900s #benito mussolini #mug shot #criminal #switzerland #criminald #fascist #italy #italian history #vintage #portrait #history #wwII #world war II

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May 7 2012
6:52 am

Mug shot of convicted bank robber Patty Hearst, San Mateo County, California, September 1975.

Posted 1 year ago
#1970s #vintage #portrait #mug shot #patty hearst #criminal #jail

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May 5 2012
2:18 am

Rosa Parks’ booking photo upon being arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.

Posted 1 year ago
#1950s #rosa parks #vintage #history #portrait #mug shot #arrest #african-american #protest #boycott #civil rights movement #racism #segregation #montgomery #alabama #USA

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Apr 30 2012
12:33 pm

French police photograph of a criminal with tattooed arms and torso, France, 1935.

Posted 1 year ago
#1930s #france #mug shot #criminal #vintage #vintage tattoos #tattoos

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Mar 15 2012
6:53 pm

New Orleans police mugshots of Lulu White, famous Storyville Madame, entertainer, and entrepreneur, 1920.

Posted 1 year ago
#1920s #new orleans #louisiana #USA #lulu white #storyville #prostitution #madams #mug shot #crime #vintage

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Jan 12 2012
12:36 am

Lewis Payne, who was arrested as an associate of John Wilkes Booth in the conspiracy to kill President Abraham Lincoln who also attacked Secretary of State Seward, wearing handcuffs. USA, 1865.

Posted 1 year ago
#1860s #19th century #victorians #victorian era #us civil war #lewis payne #criminal #mug shot #crime #john wilkes booth #abraham lincoln #USA #portrait #handcuffs

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