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22 Portraits of Female Criminals from the 1920s

They are an interesting collection of women who were all photographed in the custody of New South Wales police between

I seem to have a slight obsession with vintage mug-shots this week and I couldn’t resist sharing these beautiful photos

I was talking about my fascination with vintage mug-shot photos a few days ago and since then I stumbled upon

I’m fascinated by old mug shots. I love the candid nature of them. They show ordinary people in their every-day

Two different mug shots of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, from 1963 and 1970. In 1963 he

Actor Dennis Hopper phographed by the Taos, New Mexico Police Department in 1975 after fleeing the scene of a traffic accident.

The real Butch Cassidy (looking nothing like Paul Newman) photographed in 1894 in a mug shot from Wyoming Territorial Prison

I found these photos of 1920s criminals absolutely fascinating, partly because I think mug-shots make for really interesting candid photographs,

Criminal mugshots of men arrested in England in the early 1900s for a variety of crimes including Larceny (is this

A mug shot of American gangster Al Capone taken in June 1931. He spent 11 years in Alcatraz for tax

Mug shot of Elvis taken in 1970 when he went to visit President Nixon at the White House. You can