The police and 19th century photography. October 8, 2020 ~ shayne davidson. Before there were mugshots there were. Verkkous police departments began taking photographs of people they arrested in the 1850s. Verkkoa rogues gallery (or rogues' gallery) is a police collection of pictures or photographs of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. The term is also used. Verkkothe mug shot is an informal term (taken from english slang for “face”) for a police or booking photograph, taken after a person is arrested. Verkkobyrne also began assembling his famous “rogues’ gallery”—a collection of photographs, identifying features and modus operandi for the city’s. Szabó’s book rogues, a study of characters, published six years after brady’s gallery, aims for another kind of representativeness — not of. Verkkoin the u. s. , police created rogues’ galleries of mug shots, sometimes even publishing them and encouraging upstanding citizens to keep a watchful eye.
