M.ALPHONSE BERTILLON, who has so completely demonstrated the futility of the photograph as a means of judicial identification on any extended scale (see my description of M. Bertillon's system of ...
The first known photograph of a person is said to have been taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838 or 1839. The widespread use of photography to record the faces of criminals, however, didn’t catch on until ...
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