Category Archives: smooth criminal

mickey rooney as babyface nelson

Posted on February 23, 2013 | Leave a comment

Mickey Rooney (with Carolyn Jones) as Baby Face Nelson. 1957.

Lester Joseph Gillis aka Baby Face Nelson as Baby Face Nelson.

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hundred-and-thirty-six-year-old headlines

Posted on December 15, 2011 | Leave a comment

It’s back to photographing running horses for Eadweard Muybridge after being acquitted of murdering the man who was cuckolding him. February 1875.

Muybridge. Circa 1884.

This begins a new category (for which I’ll come up with a terrible name later) about the dawn of and precursors to the movies. I’ll be culling the images to be included here from Terry Ramsaye‘s 1926 bone-dry, two-volume tome A Million And One Nights, A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925.

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Posted on June 22, 2010 | Leave a comment

A burglar at age 17. Arrested February 21, 1938.

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Posted on November 14, 2009 | Leave a comment

Alexander Perdyan

A burglar at age 16. Arrested June 5, 1936.

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Posted on May 29, 2009 | Leave a comment

I found some 1930s mug shots at an estate sale over the weekend. This guy was picked up for larceny and forgery of a government check. He was thirty-one years of age at the time of his arrest on September 4, 1937.

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