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Rogues' gallery

Police collection of mug shots

Rogues' gallery
Summary

Police collection of mug shots

[[New York City Police Department]] rogues gallery, July 1909

A rogues' gallery (or rogues gallery) is a police collection of mug shots or other images of criminal suspects kept for identification purposes.

History

In 1855, Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, established a rogues' gallery – a compilation of descriptions, methods of operation (modi operandi), hiding places, and names of criminals and their associates. Another early collection was established circa 1854 or 1855 by the detective Isaiah W. Lees of the San Francisco Police Department.

Inspector Thomas Byrnes of the late-19th-century New York City Police Department popularized the term with his collection of photographs of known criminals, which was used for witness identification. Byrnes published some of these photos with details of the criminals in Professional Criminals of America (1886).

References

References

  1. (April 1952). "Rogue's Gallery". International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House Inc..
  2. (2000). "Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840–1865". Stanford University Press.
  3. Byrnes, Thomas. ''Professional Criminals of America'' (1886) [https://archive.org/details/cu31924096989177 Online at Archive.org]
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