This might be a more timely mystery than the 1883 date suggests. Because Donald Trump was recently the subject of the first presidential mug shot, a number of magazines and news outlets have used that occasion to write up a history of the mug shot. They all follow about the same narrative: the mugshot as we know it today was standardized in the 1880s through the work of Alphonse Bertillon, a Parisian police officer. 

One older article, however, mentions specifically that Bertillon System of a front photo and a side photo accompanied by other key information that only became known and popular in the United States after it was displayed at the 1893 Chicago's World Fair. Before that, which would be at the time of the above pictures, police took and shared photos of criminals, but not in any sort of standardized format, with this case of using a local photographer and writing conviction information on the back seeming to be one of many different approaches in use at the time.

Interesting that the first two men each got five years and a hundred dollar fine and the last guy got 7 days and a 10 dollar fine. That's a pretty substantial difference.