Mug shot

For the social networking website, see Mugshot (website).

A mug shot (also known as a mugshot, head shot, or booking photograph) is a photographic portrait taken after one is arrested. It was invented by Allan Pinkerton, a famous US detective of the 19th Century. Most mug shots are two-part, with one side-view photo, and one front-view. The Pinkerton National Detective Agency first began using these on "Wanted" posters from the "Wild West" days.

Prior to the advent of computer technology, the accused was asked to hold a card with their name, the date, and other information on it. In recent years, digital photography is used for the booking process, and the accused now is no longer asked to hold the card while the photo is taken. Rather the digital photograph is linked to a database record concerning the arrest.

Rogues Gallery

• Police mugshot of Mary Surratt at the time of her arrest in April 1865
  Police mugshot of Mary Surratt at the time of her arrest in April 1865
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  Samuel Arnold after his arrest 1865
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  George Atzerodt after his capture in 1865 {Alexander Gardner photograph}
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  David Herold after his capture in 1865 {Alexander Gardner photograph}
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  Michael O'Laughlen after his arrest for conspiracy in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Courtesy Library of Congress.]]
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  Michael O'Laughlen after his arrest for conspiracy in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Courtesy Library of Congress.
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  Lewis Powell aboard the USS Saugus {Alexander Gardner photograph}
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  Lewis Powell aboard the USS Saugus {Alexander Gardner photograph}
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  Edmund Spangler after his arrest in 1865
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  Frank Reno 1837-1868]]
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  John Reno 1839-1895
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  Frank Sparks
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  Jesse and Frank James, 1872
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  A wounded Cole Younger, after his arrest in 1876
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  A wounded Jim Younger after his arrest in 1876
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  Injured Bob Younger after his capture in 1876
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  John Younger
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  Sam Bass
• John Wesley Hardin
  John Wesley Hardin
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  Henry McCarty
  a.k.a. William H. Bonney
  a.k.a. Billy the Kid
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  Charles J. Guiteau
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  August Spies
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  Albert Parsons
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  Adolph Fischer
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  George Engel
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  Louis Lingg
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  Michael Schwab
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  Samuel Fielden circa 1886
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  Oscar Neebe (1850-1916)
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  Butch Cassidy {Robert LeRoy Parker}'s mugshot, when imprisoned at the Wyoming Territorial Prison in [[Laramie, Wyoming 1894
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• Herman W. Mudgett aka Dr. H.H. Holmes 1895 mugshot
  Herman W. Mudgett aka Dr. H.H. Holmes 1895 mugshot
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  Luigi Lucheni # 5855 1898 mugshot
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  Police mug shot of Leon Czolgosz #757.
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  Leon Czolgosz's prisoner card at Auburn #A2323.
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  John Schrank who shot Theodore Roosevelt 1912
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  Gavrilo Princip in prison cell at Terezín
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  Alexander Berkman 1919-prior to deportation
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  Charles Ponzi #5247 1920 mughot
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  Alvin Karpis #1539
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  Al Capone # C28169
• John Dillinger
  John Dillinger
• FBI mug shot of Homer Van Meter #11561
  FBI mug shot of Homer Van Meter #11561
• Mugshot of John Hamilton (gangster) aka "Red" Hamilton # 11963
  Mugshot of John Hamilton (gangster) aka "Red" Hamilton # 11963
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  Charles Makley # 12636
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  Lester Gillis aka Baby Face Nelson #5437. Photo from FBI files
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  Pretty Boy Floyd. Photo from FBI Files.
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  Vernon Miller. Photo from FBI Files.
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  1933 Memphis Police Department booking photo of George Machine Gun Kelly # 15595
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  1942 FBI mugshot of Roger Touhy #76 587
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  SS general Jürgen Stroop in the U.S. military custody in 1945
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  SS Dr. Karl Brandt (physician)
• Dr. Marcel Petiot.
  Dr. Marcel Petiot.

Also

• Rogues gallery

External links

• Mugshots at The Smoking Gun website
• Celebrity Arrests: How the Mighty Have Fallen (Celebrity Arrests)
• Mugshots from Mug Shot du Jour