Webthomas byrnes (left) watches a criminal struggle to avoid his mug shot for the rogues’ gallery. Riis/museum of the city of new york. Theodore roosevelt famously revived his. Webset against the backdrop of new york's gilded age, with its extremes of plutocratic wealth, tenement poverty, and rising social unrest, rogues' gallery is a fascinating story of the origins of modern policing and organized crime in an eventful era. Webset against the backdrop of new york's gilded age, with its extremes of plutocratic wealth, tenement poverty, and rising social unrest, rogues' gallery is a fascinating story of the origins of modern policing and organized crime in an eventful era. Webwith these words as a starting point, michael gross, leading chronicler of the american rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the. Weba rogues' gallery (or rogues gallery) is a police collection of mug shots or other images of criminal suspects kept for identification purposes.
