For more than a century, mug shots have helped police catch criminals. Those photos of a person's face and profile trace their roots to Paris in the late 19th century. Now, some of the earliest mug ...

Doris Abravaya stood just over five feet tall and weighed less than 100 pounds when she graduated from Manhattan Technical High School in 1933. Her time there was documented on a single oversized card ...

In the first decades after the invention of photography, police forces began assembling “rogues galleries,” collections of images of suspected and convicted criminals. These galleries were rarely ...

Early mug shots of 19th-century criminal suspects in a book by Alphonse Bertillon, chief of criminal identification for the Paris police Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images Editor’s note, August 25, 2023: ...

Alphonse Bertillon was described in the Hound of the Baskervilles as the only criminal investigator in Europe more adept than Sherlock Holmes You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...

Listen • 3:56 20160308_atc_the_man_behind_mug_shots.mp3 For more than a century, mug shots have helped police catch criminals. Those photos of a person's face and profile trace their roots to Paris in ...

French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon's (left) techniques for identifying criminals in the late 19th century set the template that police use today. (Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images) For more ...

For more than a century, mug shots have helped police catch criminals. Those photos of a person's face and profile trace their roots to Paris in the late 19th century. Now, some of the earliest mug ...