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
But it was Bertillon, beginning in the eighteen-eighties, who pioneered the use of forensic photography.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2016
Bertillon instituted a method focused on measurements of certain body parts, precise descriptions and mug shots.
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
Devised by the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon in 1879, it was the first scientific method for identifying repeat criminals.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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