Caption:
Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques: pour servir a l'étude du 'portrait parlé', ca. 1909, Gelatin silver print, Image: 39.4 x 29.5 cm (15 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.), Photographs, Alphonse Bertillon (French, 1853–1914), Nineteenth-century police headquarters were host to disorganized 'rogues’ galleries' swollen with photographic portraits of criminals, which turned even the simplest of searches into a Sisyphean labor