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Passports
1A daguerreotypist of Paris has proposed... (1852-1853)
Passes
2Photographic passes for international exhibitions
Identity cards
3Introduction to identity cards, membership cards, passes and documents
4Identity cards and passes during the First World War (1914-1918)
5Najaf Shokri: Iran Dokht
Identity badges
6Identity badges
The need for mugshots
7Science a Preservative from Crime (1853)
8Bristol City and County Gaol, Great Britain (1853)
9Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Prison Discipline - J.A. Gardner, Bristol Gaol (1863)
Mugshots
10Thomas Byrnes: Professional Criminals of America (1886)
11Prison records and ledgers
12Prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916
13New South Wales. Police Dept.

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