Early 20th Century Police Detective Log Books

This is amazing! I’m not surprised they sold for over $3,400!

 

From the listing:

Andrew A. Ryan Police record, 1899-1920; 1 ledger, 23 notebooks (4 x 6 in.).

The work of a detective in a turn of the twentieth century U.S. city was nearly as difficult and dangerous as it is today, with murders and rapes, prostitutes, vagrants, and suspicious characters seemingly lurking around every dark street corner. Andrew A. Ryan’s notebooks as detective in the Cleveland Police Department provide a cop’s-eye glimpse in the underworld of the largest city in Ohio and are a remarkable record of criminality, petty and grand, infecting urban America during the allegedly good old days.

Read more at  Early 20th Century Police Detective Log Book and Daily Duties – Cowan’s Auctions.

 

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