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See 100 historical mug shots dating from 1886 to 1908.
From October 22nd to December 9th, the Archives of
Ontario is pleased to host Arresting Images, an
award-winning, bilingual travelling exhibit from the OPP
Museum.
Suspected crimes include pick pocketing, forgery, opium
eating, and murder. This unique display has case file
information for each individual, as well as selected
artifacts from the OPP Museum’s holdings.
The Archives of Ontario’s Helen McClung Gallery is
located at 134 Ian Macdonald Blvd. Exhibit hours are
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, and
Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Stay tuned for details about our upcoming
exhibit-related speakers series, featuring Archives and
OPP Museum staff and York faculty.
William Rae (alias Frank Hall) is one of five suspects in the collection photographed wearing handcuffs, 1900 (2000.28.390).
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Insights from the Experts - Arresting Images:
Mug Shots from the OPP Museum
George Spragge Classroom, Archives of Ontario,
October 24th - 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Have you ever wondered how a travelling
exhibition is created - particularly one featuring
historic mug shots of suspects and criminals?
This session will feature the Arresting Images
exhibition curator who will provide insights into
the issues she confronted during the research
process, selection of images and production of
the exhibition itself. She will be joined by the
Archives' own experts sharing their knowledge
of the Archives' criminal justice records,
information and privacy issues and conservation
concerns for archival photographs and
documents.
Scheduled Speakers:
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Jeanie Tummon, Exhibition Curator, OPP Museum
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Ryan Carpenter, Senior Coordinator - Archival Electronic Records
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Oksana Budjko, Information and Privacy Analyst
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Dee Psaila, Senior Conservator
Archives of Ontario -- "Crime, Perception and Punishment"
George Spragge Classroom, Archives of Ontario,
November 21st - 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
The panelists will cover a range of
interesting topics. Shelley Gavigan examines low
law, criminalization, and feminist perspectives
in legal historical scholarship through cases
involving First Nations and Métis women and
girls in a territorial criminal court in the
Plains region of western Canada in the late
nineteenth century. Douglas Hay will show how
likenesses of convicts were rare, and usually
only found for the notorious and famous. Carmela
Murdocca’s examines a sentencing provision that
attempts to address the over-incarceration of
Indigenous peoples in Canadian prisons, and how
ideas concerning reconciliation and reparative
justice are connected to rising incarceration
rates for Indigenous and racialized peoples in
liberal settler contexts. Bill Wicken will
discuss various criminal cases involving people
from the Six Nations reserve near Brantford, in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Moderated by: Lisa Philipps
- Associate Vice-President Research York University, Associate
Dean (Research, Graduate Studies and Institutional Relations),
Osgoode Hall Law School
Scheduled Speakers:
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Shelley Gavigan,
Associate Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School
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Douglas Hay,
History, LA&PS, and Osgoode
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Carmela Murdocca,
Sociology, LA&PS
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William Wicken,
History, LA&PS
To download a flyer for this
event click here
Busted: The Enduring Allure of the Mug Shot
George Spragge Classroom,
Tuesday November 29th -
2:30-4:45 p.m.
“Busted:
the enduring allure of the mug shot”
aims at a lively, critical discussion of the
Arresting Images exhibition, drawing on the work
of photographer, writer and critic, Allan Sekula,
and on what photographer Ariella Azoulay calls
“the event of photography”. At stake are issues
of power both then and now, the impact the
images have on viewers and their public and
private features.
Each of the panelists brings their distinctive
interests and way of viewing these photographs.
Moderated
by: Stephen Bulger - Owner of the Stephen Bulger
Gallery
Scheduled
Speakers:
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Katherine Knight, Associate
Professor, Department of Visual Art, Faculty
of Fine Arts, York University
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Sarah
Parsons, Associate Professor in the
Department of Visual Art, Faculty of Fine
Arts at York University
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Carol
Zemel, Professor, Faculty of Fine
Arts at York University
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