Research Catalog

Title

Mug shots : an archive of the famous, infamous, and most wanted / by Raynal Pellicer.

Author

Pellicer, Raynal.

Publication

New York : Abrams, 2009.

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Details

Description

285 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

• "Mug Shots: An Archive of the Famous, Infamous, and Most Wanted presents more than 250 photographs of some of the most infamous suspects in modern history, from mafia bosses and cold-blooded killers to spies and prominent political activists. Today, the mug shot is an essential police procedure worldwide. This collection spans the history of this practice, including mob bosses like Al Capone and John Gotti, political figures like Lenin and Fidel Castro, icons such as Bonnie and Clyde, Elvis, and Janis Joplin, as well as activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks.
• With each case, the author provides succinct yet comprehensive commentary on the circumstances of the subject's arrest, the nature of the charges against them, and reconstructs some of the most dramatic trials of the twentieth century."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Présumés coupables. English

Alternative Title

Présumés coupables.

Subject

• Celebrities > Portraits
• Criminals > Portraits
• Identification photographs

Genre/Form

Portraits

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Origins -- The Paris Commune -- Propaganda of the Deed -- Anarchists in Europe -- American Anarchists -- The Russian Revolution -- Stalin -- The Belle Epoque -- The Bonnot Gang -- Assassination of Jean Jaures -- Wartime Spies -- "The Bluebeard of Gambais" -- Political Homicides -- Organized Crime -- Carbone and Spirito -- The Fraudster of the Century -- The Mafia -- Al Capone -- National Crime Syndicate -- Dutch Schultz -- Murder Inc -- Frank Costello -- Vito Genovese -- Bugsy Siegel -- French Women Criminals -- Interwar Troubled Times -- The Stavisky Affair -- Public Enemy #1 -- Bonnie & Clyde -- John Dillinger -- The Dillinger Gang -- Alvin Karpis -- The Great Pre-War Trials.

ISBN

• 9780810921092 (harry n. abrams, inc.)
• 081092109X (harry n. abrams, inc.)

LCCN

^^2008045414

OCLC

261176318

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library