Cover title: Confidential Property of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency : 1. Mug book featuring photographs of race touters, con men, thieves, etc.

by Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency

$2,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Primarily Boston, 1930s–1950s. Folio 17” x 6.125” , gilt-stamped faux brown leather over boards, unfolding into three columns of photos mounted in flip-up windows. 152 original photographs. CONDITION: Very good. A volume of over 150 criminal portraits—with personal and arrest details—compiled by the detective agency that invented the mug shot and, with the help of the first female private

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