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Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph.

Grave of Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph.

Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph, 1913.

Alphonse Bertillon, father of scientific detection / [Henry Taylor Fowkes Rhodes].

Reasoned and unreasoned images : the photography of Bertillon, Galton, and Marey / Josh Ellenbogen.

Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques / par Alphonse Bertillon.

Physiognomic features for use in the identification of criminals by the Paris police force. Photograph, 1900/1920, of a photographic collage by Alphonse Bertillon, 1901/1914.

Ethnographie moderne : les races sauvages  / par Alphonse Bertillon.

La photographie judiciaire : avec un appendice sur la classification et l'identification anthropométriques / par Alphonse Bertillon.

Identification anthropométrique / instructions signalétiques par Alphonse Bertillon.

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Alphonse Bertillon

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Images by Alphonse Bertillon

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Works from the collections

Ethnographie moderne : les races sauvages / par Alphonse Bertillon.

Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques / par Alphonse Bertillon.

La photographie judiciaire : avec un appendice sur la classification et l'identification anthropométriques / par Alphonse Bertillon.

Identification anthropométrique / instructions signalétiques par Alphonse Bertillon.

Physiognomic features for use in the identification of criminals by the Paris police force. Photograph, 1900/1920, of a photographic collage by Alphonse Bertillon, 1901/1914.