Least Wanted: A Century of American Mugshots

A few sample pages from this book

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These images, meant to be destroyed when obsolete, are remnants of a bygone era of hard-copy originals: physical photographs, often accompanied by municipal ephemera. Glued to cards and manuscripts. Typed on and rubber stamped. Measured and fingerprinted. Documented and classified.