New York's criminals evaded police in the 1800s with disguise, but the use of photography changed methods of capture forever. Find out how New York City's Rogues' Gallery became an invaluable aid to the police, and how you could never judge a person by their appearance. For you will learn how some of the New York's most notorious criminals led a double life, assuming the guise of respectability to avoid detection. However, once they had been committed as a suspect to the Rogues Gallery, deception became a much harder game to play.

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Credits: Narration - markmanningmedia.com
Photography information - Rogue's Gallery in Image (George Eastman House) Vol1, No7 October 1952

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