Rogues gallery

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For other uses, see Rogues gallery (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with peanut gallery.

A rogues gallery (or rogues' gallery) is a police collection of pictures or photographs of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. The term is also used figuratively by extension for any group of shady characters or the line-up of 'mugshot' photographs that might be displayed in the halls of a dormitory or workplace.

New York City Police Department rogues gallery, July 1909.

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