Women’s Mug Shots, L.A, 1930′s / 1940s

7 comments to Women’s Mug Shots, L.A, 1930′s / 1940s

• garconniere

  January 18, 2012 at 2:54 pm · Reply

  i saw these on tumblr back in december, and find them more sad than anything else… if only we could find out more about them as people, not just for the crimes they were accused of.

• melissa

  January 18, 2012 at 4:26 pm · Reply

  wow. so it was a crime to be a lesbian? ridiculous and insane. times have definitely changed.

• Canaduck

  January 19, 2012 at 8:17 am · Reply

  Agreed, these are pretty depressing!

• MikeP.Nash

  January 24, 2012 at 9:12 pm · Reply

  Not so much the good old days. So much for looking back into the past with ‘Rose tinted spectacles’ when they were locking up lesbians!

• Carol

  March 17, 2012 at 11:50 pm · Reply

  What is a badger game?

• larry

  March 25, 2012 at 3:16 pm · Reply

  The badger game is an extortion scheme, often perpetrated on married men, in which the victim or “mark” is tricked into a compromising position to make him vulnerable to blackmail.
  (source: Wikipedia so it mst be true)

• Kaitlyn

  May 16, 2012 at 11:49 pm · Reply

  Heh, those were the days…when being a lesbian and a ‘mental case’ was cause to lend you a mug-shot….