Friday 13 August 2010

Small Town Noir


Small Town Noir is dedicated to recovering the life stories behind mug shots from the vanished golden age of one American town. The mug shots on this site were all taken in New Castle, Pennsylvania, between 1930 and 1959, and were rescued from the trash when the town's police department threw them out.

The information that has been used to reconstruct the stories behind the pictures comes mostly from old copies of the local paper, the New Castle News.

(via Nag on the Lake)

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