Alphonse Bertillon
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Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement, creating an identification system based on physi
Mug shot of Bertillon, 1912 (self-portrait)
Class on the Bertillon system in France in 1911.
Class on the Bertillon system in France in 1911.
Anthropometric data sheet of Alphonse Bertillon
The Anthropometric File of Anarchists, or more precisely, the Anthropometric Photographs of Anarchists, is a collection of hundreds of police photographs of anarchists in France. These were taken by A
Alphonse Bertillon
…began in the 1840s only a few years after the invention of photography, but it was not until 1888 that Bertillon standardized the process, notably with his file on anarchists. His flawed evidence was used to wrongly convict Alfred Dreyfus in the infamous Dreyfus affair…
Anarchists in the Bertillon file (MET)
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Bastard. Élisée, Joseph, Michel. 22 ans, né à Birnel. Polisseur. Anarchiste. 20 8 93. MET DP290109