Bertillon
Americannoun
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In many larger cities during the 1890s and early 1900s, the booking and photographing of an arrested person was also accompanied by the taking of Bertillon measurements.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2020
For all its brash Americanness, “Crime Stories”—and the genre of crime photography itself—is indelibly shaped by the work of the nineteenth-century French police officer Alphonse Bertillon.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2016
Later in the century, the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon laid the groundwork for today’s police identification system.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2016
Next to it is an image from 1902 attributed to Alphonse Bertillon, a Paris police chief credited with developing the mug shot and an early practitioner of crime-scene photography.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2012
Bertillon had barely been buried before his successor declared that fingerprints were the future.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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