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 ...

French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon believed each person's physical measurements were as distinct as their fingerprints, and devised the first modern mug shots as part of his classification system ...

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 ...

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 ...

This holiday season, visitors to The Met are invited to marvel at the classic Christmas tree and menorah displays as well as enjoy seasonal food offerings, shopping opportunities, holiday concerts, ...

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 ...

French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon wasn't the first to introduce mug shots to police, but he standardized how they were taken and added the... Meet Alphonse Bertillon, The Man Behind The Modern ...