John Patrick Looney was a gangster in Rock Island, Illinois during the early 20th century. Looney served as the model...
John Patrick Looney
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The Whyos Gang
The Whyos Gang were a street gangs of New York, they were the city's dominant street gang during the mid-late 19th...
Mulberry Street / Mulberry Bend
The photo is a picture of an unnamed real Gang of New York in Bandits Roost an alley somewhere in Mulberry Street. Its...
The Short Tails
The Short Tails (Not to be confused with the Shirt Tails, who were an earlier gang) This is a photo of a real Gang of...
The Child Gangs of New York
The photo is a child gang of orphans that lived in the alleys somewhere around Mulberry Street and was taken in 1888....
The Bowery Bum’s
The photo is from inside the Oak Street Police Station. Its part of a collection called How The Other Half Live the...
Dive bars, saloons and other places of sin
The photo is a picture of an unnamed dive bar on Thompson Street. Its part of an exhibition called How The Other Half...