This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Rogues Gallery Powerhouse Across Two Continents
A detailed look at how New York City police and Scotland Yard maintain a vast Rogues Gallery with fingerprints photographs and Descriptive Portrait files. It explains cross border cooperation the Habitual Convicts Registry and the rise of modern identification turning crooks into an exact science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Higgins
Iggins
New York City
London
Ellis Island
West Street
England
Blime
United States
New York
Yeggman
America
Europe
John Jones
John Smith
Rogues’ Gallery
Rogues
Scotland Yard
Prefecture of Police
Paris
Belgium
Joseph A. Faurot
Detective Bureau
Faurot
Inspector Faurot
Lieut
John Allen
New York State
Police Headquarters
Centre Street
Convicts’ Registry
Convict Supervision Office
Criminal Investigation Department
Registry
British Museum of Crime
Dent
East End
Church Army
Salvation Army
Great Britain
France
Italy
Germany
Russia