This item is the prison photograph, also known as the “mug shot,” of Leavenworth inmate Joseph Wirth, register number 7452. The photograph is divided into two parts. One side captures the inmate’s right profile from the middle of the arm to the top of the head. The other side shows a frontal view from the middle of the chest to the top of the head.
Joseph Wirth was convicted of selling Oleomargarine, colored to look like butter, without paying the 10 cents per pound tax. He spent more than three years at the Federal Prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.
