Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph.

Grave of Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph.

Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph, 1913.

1 photograph : photoprint ; image 16.5 x 12.4 cm

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.

viii, 311 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 8 folded plates : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Ethnographie moderne : les races sauvages  / par Alphonse Bertillon.

lxxxiv, 148 pages and atlas (81 plates) : illustrations ; 25 cm

115 pages, 8 plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.

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

2 pages ., LXXXIV, 148 pages including frontispiece, illustrations, diagrams and atlas (2 pages ., 81 plates, 2 folded tables, folded colour plate) ; 25 cm

Identification anthropométrique / instructions signalétiques par Alphonse Bertillon.

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 37.6 x 26 cm

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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.

Grave of Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph.