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I hadn't worked on this for a year or so until today and I only worked on the full-face picture; I'll work on the profile again, too, soon. This was a drawing I'd given up on and had removed from the site. It's a mess now because of course to make a "good" drawing of this I'd have to start from the beginning, on new paper - It no longer erases well (just smears). I just wanted to see if I would be able to improve my original drawing, not having to worry about making a further mess, but trying to capture something of what it seems to me this man was feeling at the time his mugshots were taken, and also something of his personality as I interpret it from what I see in the photographs. To me the mess I can't do anything about isn't so important right now. Because I got rid of the page this man's mugshots were on when I deleted his picture from the site, I don't have the information handy on him that I had before. I did keep the photos, though, and it says on there that his name is James Sullivan and that this is "the first mugshot" (first one taken of any criminal, I think that means). It gives the date as February 23, 1897 and says that he was arrested for stealing a horse. It doesn't say it on this photo, but I think this was in New York City.
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