Alphonse Bertillon

During the Victorian era, the primary means of identifying a person and linking him or her to a crime was a "science" called anthropometry, which was developed in 1879 by French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon.

Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930

Such masters of criminology as Alphonse Bertillon or his famous compatriot,

The Sins of Séverac Bablon Sax Rohmer 1921

Alphonse Bertillon, who appears in one of the identity cards he invented, came up with a system that combined photography (the profile and face-on photos that police still use today) with a range of bodily measurements.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

In the 1880s, when a French crime fighter named Alphonse Bertillon pioneered the mug shot as a unique form of portraiture, the photographs he took were expected to do one thing: Help establish an individual's identity at a time when driver's licenses, fingerprint files, and Facebook pages didn't exist.

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run 2009

Accompanying this luridness is the counterbalance of the development of professionalized police detective methods that pioneered modern crime-solving, with legendary figures like Alphonse Bertillon and Francois-Eugene Vidocq showcasing France's contribution to worldwide law enforcement methodology.

Population Statistic 2009

Alphonse Bertillon: Anthropometry/Father of criminal identification.

Recently Uploaded Slideshows warren142 2009

An even nicer touch is adding Monsieur Alphonse Bertillon to the story - even if it is name only - as a further tie to the Holmes mythos (Bertillon was referenced in The Hound of the Baskervilles).

Major Spoilers 2009