women of the Golden era from the 1920's mug shots

[green papaya]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Australia.html

Fasinating mugshots from women prisoners in the 1920's Australia

They were some of Australia's shadiest sheilas.

Murderers, bigamists, cocaine dealers and back street abortionists, all manner of vampish villain and fallen floozy scooped off the streets and photographed for police files. Their blank expressions hiding a catalogue of appalling crimes.

The incredible pictures - part of a collection of 2500 mugshots taken by New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930 - give a fascinating glimpse into the role of women in the seedy underbelly of early 20th century Australian life.

There is 32-year-old Dorothy Mort. She may look harmless but behind that innocent-looking face lurks a terrifying femme fatale who turned to murder when her toyboy lover starred into her dark eyes and said their affair was over.

the women back in the 1920's look a lot different than today

[scottyrocks]

Some very startling pictures that speak volumes to how different and difficult life was for some people so many years ago. A. Cooke, however, looks like her picture could have been taken today.

[Bluebird Marsha]

Some very startling pictures that speak volumes to how different and difficult life was for some people so many years ago. A. Cooke, however, looks like her picture could have been taken today.

I noticed her too. She stuck out because she does look "modern", and she's actually a rather nice looking young woman.

Naturally, she's the bigamist in the lot!

What frightened me a tiny bit, was how "young" some of these women were. Unless I'm mistaken, some of them are apparently missing most of their front teeth. (They have that sunken in look around the mouth that usually indicates missing teeth). It's like looking at women in today's Pakistan or Darfur. Extreme hardship isn't very kind to the human body.

[V.C. Brunswick]

Clara Randall (November 12, 1923) -- is it just me or is she sporting a black eye?

[LizzieMaine]

It was common for even well-off people in their thirties to have lost many, if not most of their teeth -- it was viewed as much a consequence of aging as grey hair. My mother had lost all of her teeth by the time she was 40, and that was only in the '70s. It wasn't until mass flouridation of the drinking water supply began in the fifties and sixties that this began to change.

[Marc Chevalier]

It wasn't until mass flouridation of the drinking water supply began in the fifties and sixties that this began to change.

Lizzie, you could add this to your "Personal List of Good Things That Post-Date 1959." Or was it begun before '59?

[LizzieMaine]

Lizzie, you could add this to your "Personal List of Good Things That Post-Date 1959." Or was it begun before '59?

Before -- it actually started in 1945, and took about twenty years to become really widespread. There were --and still are -- people who were convinced it was a sinister plot to undermine American health, but they were in the minority.

There was -- and still is -- no fluoridation in the town where I grew up, and I have a mouth full of fillings and am missing six teeth. Cause and effect?

The Tozer case is absolutely fascinating -- there's an American parallel in the shooting of baseball player Eddie Waitkus by an obsessed female fan in 1949. Waitkus survived, but the shooter, a young woman named Ruth Steinhagen, was institutionalized, given shock treatments, and "pronounced cured." As in Austrailia, the media ate the case for breakfast -- and Bernard Malamud used it as the basis for a novel.

[scottyrocks]

There was -- and still is -- no fluoridation in the town where I grew up, and I have a mouth full of fillings and am missing six teeth. Cause and effect?

Not necessarily. If there was/is a preponderance of these type of dental issues, however, in your town, then I'd say there is a good case for cause and effect. Or maybe everyone there has bad teeth genes but I doubt it.

My wife, who grew up here in fluorodated NYC has problems similar to yours. Hers began after the birth of her first children (twins). Was that the cause or is it coincidence? We don't know for sure despite the timing.

[sheeplady]

Not necessarily. If there was/is a preponderance of these type of dental issues, however, in your town, then I'd say there is a good case for cause and effect. Or maybe everyone there has bad teeth genes but I doubt it.

My wife, who grew up here in fluorodated NYC has problems similar to yours. Hers began after the birth of her first children (twins). Was that the cause or is it coincidence? We don't know for sure despite the timing.

Many countries don't fluoridate their water and there has been a significant drop in cavities in most industrialized countries over the past several decades. Since the 1970s toothpaste with fluoride has been widely available, so I bet the reduction of cavities has more to do with fluoride in toothpaste than in the water.

[katiesparkles]

"Harry Crawford, above looks like a man but her real name was Eugenia Falleni (right)."
YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME.