Rogue's Gallery, Funeral Wells & Sofy Levy; and 2 other women thieves -- the prettiest & the ugliest in the Rogue's Gallery put together. The Pretty one is a blackmailer; the ugly one a horse thief.

Creator Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)

Accession number 90.13.4.2

Unique identifier MNY200790

Description Mug shots depicted differ from title description. Based on descriptive information in Thomas Byrnes's "Professional Criminals of America" (1886 and 1895), the image purported to be of James "Funeral" Wells does not look like him. According to Byrnes, Sofy Levy's real name was Sophie Lyons.

Dated ca. 1890

Object Type photograph

Medium printing-out paper

Physical dimensions sheet width: 10 in
sheet height: 5 1/2 in
image width: 8 in
image height: 5 1/4 in

File dimensions 18.3 in × 11.7 in at 300dpi
46.5 cm × 29.7 cm at 300dpi

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New York (N.Y.). Police Dept.

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