Bertillon
Americannoun
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British police devised the first criminal identification record of distinctive marks, and, in France, Alphonse Bertillon developed a system of anthropometry, or measuring and cataloging physical characteristics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
As far as we know, such a system doesn’t yet exist, but computerized biometric identification technologies like facial and gait recognition software have significantly advanced the Bertillon approach.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2016
The Bertillon system was only one of Bertillon’s achievements.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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