Oftentimes, we think of people from the past as stuffy, stiff, and nowhere near as fun as us. After all, at best, we might have a few old letters and maybe some dusty photographs. But don’t let this fool you, humans over a hundred years ago were just as capable of looking fly.
New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin shared his discovery that people in mugshots from over a hundred years ago look absolutely awesome. Bored Panda reached out to Jason via email and will update the article when he gets back to us.
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A man on TikTok shared his discovery that folks in 1920s mugshots looked incredibly cool
We’ve gathered some of the best examples online below
#1 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
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#2 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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#3 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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#4 Nancy Cowman, 21 February 1924
Nancy Cowman, 19, and Vera Crichton, 23, are listed in the NSW Police Gazette 24 March 1924 as charged, along with three others, with “conspiring together to procure a miscarriage” on a third woman
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#5 Edith Florence Ashton, 29 August 1929
Edith Ashton was a backyard abortionist who also dabbled in theft and fencing stolen goods
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#7 Hazel Mcguinness, 26 July 1929
Hazel McGuinness was charged along with her mother Ada McGuiness with having cocaine (in substantial quantities) illegally in her possession. Police described a raid on the McGuinnesses’ Darlinghurst house during which the mother Ada threw a hand bag containing packets of cocaine to her daughter, shouting, ‘Run Hazel!’
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#8 ‘Ah Num’ And ‘Ah Tom’, Ca 1930
The ‘D’ prefix on the serial number indicates that the photograph was taken on behalf of the Drug Bureau
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#11 Sydney Skukerman, Or Skukarman. 1924
Obtains goods from warehousemen by falsely representing that he is in business.
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#12 Emma Rolfe (Aka May Mulholland, Sybil White, Jean Harris And Eileen Mulholland), 1 April 1920
Emma Rolfe better known as May Mulholland (also as Sybil White, Jean Harris and Eileen Mulholland) had numerous convictions in the period 1919-1920 for theft of jewellery and clothing (all quality items: silk blouses, kimonos and scarves, antique bric a brac etc) from various houses around Kensington and Randwick, and from city shops
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#14 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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#16 Doris Winifred Poole, 31 July 1924
Doris Poole appeared before the Newtown Police Court charged with stealing jewellery and clothing
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#17 Philomena Mary Best, 15 March 1927
Philomena Best stole silk and other goods valued at over 36 pounds (about $2000 today) from a Bourke shopkeeper
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#18 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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#19 Dorothy Mort, 18 April 1921
Convicted of murder. Mrs Dorothy Mort was having an affair with dashing young doctor Claude Tozer. On 21 December 1920 Tozer visited her home with the intention of breaking off the relationship. Mort shot him dead before attempting to commit suicide
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