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Created from the Chicago Tribune's vast archives, Gangsters and Grifters is a collection of photographs featuring infamous criminals, small-time bandits, hoodlums, and more at shocking...
Nov 29, 2019 · “Malm.” Marianne Mather is the inquisitive photo editor, and Katherine “Kitty Malm” Baluk was one of the four women whose real-life murder trials inspired Maurine Watkins, a one-time Chicago...
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Mar 9, 2014 · Vintage Photos of Female Criminals From the Early 20th Century. March 09, 2014 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, event & history, female, law & criminal, portraits. A fascinating look into the world of women and crime, including murderers, bandits, crooks and mob wives, from the Tribune's 4x5 glass-plate and acetate negative archive during the early ...
- The Origins of Mugshots
- The Incarceration of Women
- The Most Notorious Women Criminals
What's more, these mugshots reveal how little has changed over the course of the mugshot's long history, which dates back almost as far as the beginning of photography itself. During the 1840s, when it was still a new technology, police departments displayed daguerreotype portraits of potential "rogues" or suspects. The nature of long-exposure phot...
During the early 19th century, women being jailed was still rare, which meant few institutions had exclusive quarters for women like they do now. In New York's Auburn Prison, which pioneered the individual cell-style of modern incarceration, the men were held in separate cells at night and endured silent labor during the day. The women, meanwhile, ...
Just like their male counterparts, female criminals have been locked up for all kinds of bizarre crimes — from joy riding and vandalism to robbery and murder. According to Tori Telfer, who wrote the book Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History, she believes that the most gutsy of them all is murder by poison. "You need to look into your victi...
Jun 30, 2022 · Though the famous female sharpshooter was never actually arrested and wasn't truly a "criminal," Chicago papers reported in 1903 that she'd been jailed for stealing men's pants to pay for her cocaine addiction. In reality, a burlesque dancer in Chicago had committed the crime, and given Annie Oakley's name as her own.
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Mar 12, 2015 · Stunning vintage photos document a notorious era in American crime. Harrison Jacobs. Mar 12, 2015, 11:22 AM PDT. In the early 20th century, Chicago was one of the most crime-ridden places in ...
Female pirates? Murderers? Gangsters? Conspirators? Yes. Throughout history women have had their share in all of it. Here is a list of seven notorious female criminals of the 17th through early 20th century who wreaked havoc on land and sea.