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The Boston Public Library has put up a pretty amazing collection of historic crime scene photographs on their Flickr page. I've been browsing through them for a while now, and mostly what I've learned is that everyone in the early 20th century acted all spooked like around picture machines, like they still thought the camera was going to steal their soul, but maybe if they stood really still it wouldn't be able to get at them. How uncomfortable do most of these people look here? Like some sort of animal confronted with some sort of light source.
Let's take a look at a few of them, shall we? For science. History science. Photos courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Gerald Chapman, "Bad Man of all time" before his execution
Every criminal was an Indiana Jones villain back then.
Police raiding squad inventory articles seized during raid at One Boylston St., race track bookmaker's quarters.
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Think the basic lesson here is that chairs were illegal in the 1930s?
Policeman finds two lost kids in Cambridge
Robin Williams's dad was jacked up on coke all the time too apparently.
Police suspect hides his face
Back in our day you dressed up like a proper gentleman on your way to getting your teeth smashed in down at the station
Nathaniel Tufts with his boy at ballpark, just before he was disbarred.
Gingers have always been creepy.
Superintendent Michael H. Crowley at police headquarters
Rubbing one out at the office took a lot more imagination back then.
Curran murder: Body found in Quincy quarry after he squealed on Gustin gang
Snitching ass bitches got done the same way back then/apparently there wasn't much on TV that day.
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5 comments:
I'd rather be lost than found by that policeman
I've been thinking about how to respond to that for like 2 hours now.
must have been so much easier to be a cop back when all the criminals had criminalfaces
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/5812827460/in/set-72157626777225491
haha, so true. those guys are obviously guilty.
Crime doesn't pay and everybody know it, specially if you think about the huge quantity of enemies you copuld get if you decide to play with the wrong team.
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