31 Amazing Photographs from vintage Police records

It’s interesting how some photographs that were taken for purely practical reasons somehow become artistic as well as historical statements. It doesn’t get a lot more practical than Police forensic photos. These were taken, and still are, at every crime scene or accident in order to provide specific details of how it happened. Over the years though, with a lot of things changing in every aspect of daily life, these photos have become visual references of a time most of us can only imagine or see glimpses of in movie reproductions. Besides that, some of them are as interesting as they are graphic. Some of the mug shots from the early “20s and “30s look like carefully staged artistic portraits.

Keep in mind, some of them may not be suitable for viewing by the more sensitive readers.