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#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.


1906

via UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Online Archive of California

Marie Lawler (alias Bacigalupi) was known as "an old time pickpocket of San Francisco." She was arrested a number of times, but it never led to any convictions. Lawler ran out of San Francisco after being released on bail for her February 26, 1906 arrest for pickpocketing Enrich Multos.

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