Last Updated on October 9, 2025 by Matt Staff
Edwardian style was crisp, and the camera didn’t flinch. These mugshots catch the turn-of-the-century mood of big cities growing fast, new politics on the street, and faces that look straight into the future.
In this gallery, we’ll flip through 20 stark mugshots from the Edwardian years, with flat lights, steady eyes, and stories that stepped out of gaslit nights into modern headlines.
1. Miss Joyce didn’t have time to take out the hair rollers
2. The famous suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst, was arrested for obstructing the police
3. Miss Forbes was arrested for larceny
4. This lady chose a very decorated hat for her mugshot
5. In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia was arrested for stealing the Mona Lisa
6. This man from Hungary fell asleep during his mugshot
7. This mugshot screams Edwardian Era style
8. Gang boss, Monk Eastman
9. This very young man was arrested for indecent exposure
10. Mr. McMurdo was caught shopbreaking
11. 1901 mugshot of the famous anarchist, Emma Goldman
12. Mr. Guerrini was an Edwardian-era murderer
13. This man was arrested for “false pretenses”
14. There’s a smidge of happiness in Mr. Williams’ mugshot
15. Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was arrested 9 times
16. This young man was apprehended for sleeping outside
17. Miss Courier, AKA Red Nora, stole a horse and was arrested
18. Marius Jacob, an anarchist and robber from the early 1900s
19. This nanny murdered her employer
20. Mr. Lohill sure was very photogenic, even for his mugshot
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