Old Pictures

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Massachusetts, 1911...

Photographer's Caption
Pin boys in Les Miserables Alleys, Frank Jarose, 7 Fayette St., Mellens Court, said 11 years old, made $3.72 last week. Joseph Philip, 5 Wall St., said 11 years old, and works until midnight every week night; said he made $2.25 last week and $1.75 the week before. Willie Payton, 196 Fayette St., said 11 years old, made over $2 last week, works there every night until midnight. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts...

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1 hour ago, pipedreams said:

Massachusetts, 1911...

Photographer's Caption
Pin boys in Les Miserables Alleys, Frank Jarose, 7 Fayette St., Mellens Court, said 11 years old, made $3.72 last week. Joseph Philip, 5 Wall St., said 11 years old, and works until midnight every week night; said he made $2.25 last week and $1.75 the week before. Willie Payton, 196 Fayette St., said 11 years old, made over $2 last week, works there every night until midnight. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts...

What is the equivalent today?

https://www.measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/?

This site suggests that $2.50 as compensation - an eyeball average - is about $500.00 today  

 

[janice6]

1 hour ago, railfancwb said:

What is the equivalent today?

https://www.measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/?

This site suggests that $2.50 as compensation - an eyeball average - is about $500.00 today  

 

A number of my friends through school worked at the local bowling alley setting pins.  Was not bad pay for the time.  They got big knuckles for it.

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Herbert Ellis 1920

Ellis is found in numerous police records of the 1910s, 20s and 30s. He is variously listed as a housebreaker,

a shop breaker, a safe breaker, a receiver and a suspected person

The fact that they were allowed to pose and even retain their own clothes does mean that this was a sort of “golden age” of mugshots. There is something appealing about the modern iteration, of just a face and side profile, but, as these images demonstrate, certain looks are just no longer possible. 

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De Gracy And Edward Dalton, 1920

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Eugenia Falleni, Alias Harry Crawford. 1920

Eugenia Falleni spent most of her life masquerading as a man.

In 1913 Falleni married a widow, Annie Birkett, whom she later murdered

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William Stanley Moore 1926

Opium dealer./ Operates with large quantities of faked opium and cocaine.

A wharf labourer; associates with water front thieves and drug traders

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Guiseppe Fiori, Alias Permontto. 1924

 

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Elsie Hall, Dulcie Morgan, Jean Taylor C. 1920

The names inscribed here do not appear in police records for 1920-21, and it is likely the women were

photographed simply because they were found in the company of known criminals

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Hampton Hirscham, Cornellius Joseph Keevil, William Thomas O’brien & James O’brien. 1921

The quartet pictured were arrested over a robbery at the home of bookmaker Reginald Catton, of Todman avenue, Kensington, on 21 April 1921. The Crown did not proceed against Thomas O’Brien but the other three were convicted and received sentences of fifteen months each

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Group Of Criminals, Central 1921

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Harris Hunter, 17 September 1924

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Thomas Sutherland Jones And William Smith, 15 July 1921

Smith and Jones are listed in the NSW Police Gazette as charged with stealing seven packages of twine (value 14 pounds).

Jones was further charged with stealing thirty horse rugs (value 15 pounds) and two bales of kapok (value 20 pounds)

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Thomas Sutherland Jones And William Smith, 15 July 1921

Smith and Jones are listed in the NSW Police Gazette as charged with stealing seven packages of twine (value 14 pounds).

Jones was further charged with stealing thirty horse rugs (value 15 pounds) and two bales of kapok (value 20 pounds)

Did all criminals get dressed up for photos

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Greta Massey, 26 January 1923

Greta Massey was an energetic impostor, forger and ‘hotel barber’ whose aliases included the surnames Gordon,

Spencer, Crawford, Robins and Simpson as well as ‘Nurse Campbell’ and ‘Nurse Nicholas’

Seems being a Hotel Barber was a crime, an explanation in a news report from 1918. It was someone who frequented hotels,

boarding houses etc and went through the clothes of other boarders while they were out.

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23 hours ago, pipedreams said:

Les Paul and… was it…

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35 minutes ago, DAKA said:

Did all criminals get dressed up for photos

If you look at old photos everyone dressed that way even to go to factory work.  I remember when i was small going to family reunions and all the adult men dressed up even if it was a outdoor event.  Times have changed, think back, how you dressed for your high school graduation picture.   

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1 minute ago, pipedreams said:

Think their spokes-Cowboy developed lung cancer and spent his final years going around campaigning against smoking. 

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The Devil's Lasso: How Barbed Wire Shaped the Frontier
Before 1874, most settlers embraced a practice wherein cattle and sheep roamed freely on the expansive prairies, sharing pastures and water sources with fellow pioneers. These were the days of the "open range," when courageous cowboys undertook arduous journeys to transport cattle to markets in the eastern prairies when nomadic Plains Indian tribes trailed the vast buffalo herds, and when countless adventurous pioneers embarked on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails to reach the distant western territories.

The concept of utilizing barbed wire to fence livestock had been circulating for some time. In 1868, Michael Kelly devised the fundamental design of barbed wire by intertwining two plain wires to form a cable with barbs. Subsequently, in 1874, Joseph Glidden, a farmer hailing from De Kalb, Illinois, enhanced Kelly's invention by securing a simple wire barb between double-strand wires, which earned him a patent from the U.S. government. Glidden's design proved cost-effective, easily manufacturable, and proficient at containing livestock, leading to its rapid proliferation across the Plains.
Finally, homesteaders possessed a straightforward yet efficient tool to demarcate their boundaries and confine their animals. Other inventors also obtained patents for their distinct variations of basic barbed wire designs, resulting in over 500 patents issued by the U.S. government between 1868 and 1874. Consequently, the vast expanse of open prairies gradually transformed into divided parcels delineated by barbed wire fences.
The advent of barbed wire had detrimental effects on the existing cultures thriving in the open spaces. Plains tribes and the majestic buffalo herds they pursued could no longer roam freely across the vanishing expanses. At the same time, ranchers found themselves devoid of grazing areas and faced challenges in herding cattle on extensive drives. Initially, cattlemen resisted this change by cutting through barbed wire fences to forge paths across private properties for their herds, igniting the infamous era of the "range wars." However, as the early 1900s approached, ranching adapted to the evolving landscape, with ranchers utilizing barbed wire to enclose their cattle. Additionally, all the Plains tribes were forcibly relocated to reservations. The era of the open range had come to an end.
Simultaneously, as patents were being granted for diverse types of barbed wire and manufacturing companies emerged to meet the demand, some resourceful homesteaders found it more convenient and economical to produce their own barbed wire, employing existing models as guides. This pragmatic approach resulted in over 2,000 variations and 500 patents for barbed wire.

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