Alphonse Bertillon, French police officer, c1880. Artist: Nadar
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Alphonse Bertillon, French police officer, c1880. In 1880, when Chief of the Paris identification bureau, Bertillon (1853-1914) devised a method of identifying criminals using anthropometric measurements. It was used for a number of years, but was replaced by fingerprinting.
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Creator
- Nadar, attributed to: French: Journalist, photographer, artist, caricaturist, author, printmaker, writer
Subject
- Alphonse Bertillon: French: policeman, photographer, law enforcement officer, biometrics researcher
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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3543x4930
File Size : 51,173kb
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- 9073
- 0460001221
- 1-158-642
- 1158642
- 1221
- 9073
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