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Alphonse Bertillon, n.d., Alphonse Bertillon, Photograph, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/34992
Alphonse Bertillon


Born: 1853, 22 April - France, Paris
Died: 1914, 13 February - Switzerland, Münsterlingen
Gender: Male
Active: France
 
A Parisian police official who used photography to create a photographic library of criminals in the Nineteenth century. He was the first to recognize that by constructing a classification system of visual features one could improve police work by more easily recognizing criminals and repeat offenders. Bertillon was also involved as a prosecution witness for the infamous Dreyfus case in France where his evidence on handwriting helped to wrongly convict Dreyfus.

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Alphonse Bertillon, n.d., Alphonse Bertillon, Photograph, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/34992
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Alphonse Bertillon, n.d., Alphonse Bertillon, Printed illustration, BIU Santé, LL/45301
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Alphonse Bertillon, n.d., Alphonse Bertillon (1853 - 1913), Engraving, Source requested, LL/1085
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Nadar, n.d., Alphonse Bertillon, Albumen print, BIU Santé, LL/45290
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Alphonse Bertillon, 1894 (ca), Alphonse Bertillon, Photograph, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/113471
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Paul Nadar, 1900 (ca), Alphonse Bertillon, Gelatin silver print, Archive Farms, LL/113532
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Alphonse Bertillon, 1908, 15 April, Anthropometric self-portrait [Autoportrait anthropométrique], Gelatin silver prints, Ader Nordmann, LL/59951
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Alphonse Bertillon, 1912, Anthropometry card for Alphonse Bertillon [Front and back], Anthropometry card, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/75820
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