American mugshots archive, c. 1912 – 1960

American mugshot archive, c. 1912-1960

SELECTION OF MUGSHOTS OF AMERICAN PRISONERS FROM DIFFERENT STATES INCLUDING ILLINOIS, WASHINGTON, PENSYLVANIA, INDIANA AND GLASS NEGATIVE OF FINGER PRINT, c. 1912 – 1960. Silver gelatin prints (73), image size approximatelly 115 x 89mm, 65 x 75mm, some mounted on card, some on paper including the description of prisoner, typed and handwritten verso, some pictures present handwritten annotations in negative

Provenance: Concrete Matter

(Quantity:73)

Concrete Matter Archive

This collection come from the archive of Frido Troost (1960 – 2013) a pioneering figure in the photography world. Art historian, teacher, curator, dealer, Troost contributed to the world of photography with legendary exhibition spaces and archives aming which the Institute for Concrete Matter in Haarlem (Netherlands), where photographs were thoroughly archived.