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Photograph of Chin Wah Affixed to Bertillon Measurement Card

Record Group 129: Records of the Bureau of PrisonsSeries: Inmate Case FilesFile Unit: Chin Wah, Inmate No. 5428

Height 1m 64.5 Head lght 19 L Foot 23.8 Eye Color Class Age 26

Heng Hgt 5-4 3/4 Head wdth 15.6 L Mid F 11.5 Areola mar Apparent age

Out A 1m 69 Cheek wdth 15 L Lit F 8.5 Periph Nativity China

Trunk 90.5 R Ear lgth 5.8 L Cubit 44.6 Pecul Ocupatoin Laborer

Remarks relative to Measurements

[photograph side view]

[photograph front view] Number 5428

Forehead Inc i Nose Profile Bridge car R Ear Sup Bor m cl Hair black Beard

Hght m Base (el) Root el Pos Bor g op Complexion Brown

Width g Height m Projection p Breadth m Lobe m f Weight 124

Pecul Pecul Teeth full Build low ??

Chin r

Examined Feb. 17 1915 144-6=138

L. J. Fletcher

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BRÈVE | Alphonse Bertillon, fondateur de la police scientifique ➽ https://bit.ly/368nvmz Alphonse Bertillon est un génie qui a su mettre à profit son ennui de fonctionnaire au service de l’enquête judiciaire

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Anarquistas franceses: fotografías tomadas por Alphonse Bertillon a finales del siglo XIX.

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Tableau des Nuances de l'Iris Humain by Alphonse Bertillon (1893).

Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and a biometrics researcher. He studied how different human traits, e.g. height, hair, handwriting etc. can be used in police work to identify potential criminals. The image above shows Bertillon’s detailed descriptions of different types of human iris, which can also be used as a biometric.  In 1888 Bertillon also standardised the use of photographic images in police work and invented what we now call a ‘mugshot’.

Source Wellcome Collection

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Bertillon System of Criminal Identification

Alphonse Bertillon (French: [bɛʁtijɔ̃]; 24 April 1853 – 13 February 1914) was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements.

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St Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, June 6, 1909

Wikipedia says that: Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. Before that time, criminals could only be identified by name or photograph. The method was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting. He is also the inventor of the mug shot. Photographing of criminals began in the 1840s only a few years after the invention of photography, but it was not until 1888 that Bertillon standardized the process.

and later: 

Bertillon was by many accounts regarded as extremely eccentric. According to Maurice Paleologue, who observed him at the second court-martial, Bertillon was “certainly not in full possession of his faculties”. Paleologue goes on to describe Bertillon’s argument as “…a long tissue of absurdities,” and writes of “…his moonstruck eyes, his sepulchral voice, the saturnine magnetism” that made him feel that he was “…in the presence of a necromancer.”

Bertillon is referenced in the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles, in which one of Holmes’ clients refers to Holmes as the “second highest expert in Europe” after Bertillon.