Mug Shot! Alphonse Bertillon and Criminal Identification

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2011

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In the 19th century, Alphonse Bertillon standardized the mug shot and came up with a system of organizing police records; he also conceived a new way of identifying people. Tune in to learn more about the rise -- and fall -- of Bertillon's system.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, from HowstuffWorks.com.
0:42.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.7	I'm Thera Dowdy and I'm DeBlena Chalker Bordy.
0:46.7	And today we're going to start the podcast by telling you a story
0:50.7	about two men with the last name West.
0:54.7	So in 1903, a guy named Will West was admitted into Love and Worth Prison in Kansas.
1:01.7	And as with customary at the time, his measurements were taken,
1:05.7	and that wasn't just like weight and height.
1:07.7	It was things like the length and width of his head and measurements of specific fingers.
1:13.7	And while all these measurements were going on,
1:15.7	one of the clerks at the prison had this really strong feeling that he had measured this guy before.
1:22.7	So he started to look through records and sure enough,
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