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
In the 1890s, the French physician and statistician Jacques Bertillon further systematized death reporting by introducing the Bertillon Classification of Causes of Death, the first medical-coding system, which was adopted and modified in many countries.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2017
But it was Bertillon, beginning in the eighteen-eighties, who pioneered the use of forensic photography.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2016
The exhibition includes a set of about 60 wallet-size mug shots of suspected anarchists from French police files of 1891-95 made by Bertillon or by technicians trained in his methods.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016
Unlike Louis Lépine, Alphonse Bertillon, his partner in the Mona Lisa investigation, had zero nicknames.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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