#TBT: Mug Shots of San Francisco Bad Girls, 1880s-1950s

#TBT: Mug Shots of San Francisco Bad Girls, 1880s-1950s

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We've learned about the over-the-top days of the Barbary Coast, and the ruffians and outlaws that made the west really wild. We know about the bootleggers, the scoundrels, the outsiders. But, as with most of history, women were also a part of this, yet have often been written out of it. Meet the misbehavin' girls of the 1880s to the 1950s, who got into some trouble, and left behind a mugshot as evidence.


1880

via UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Online Archive of California

Mollie Wisner was known as "The Lost Chicken."She was a Barbary Coast entertainer who apparently only performed one song, and part of a group of women pickpocketers of the Barbary Coast. After making bail from her 1880 grand larcery arrest, Wisner skipped town, never to be seen again.

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