Verkkoin the 1880s, alphonse bertillon, an anthropologist and chief of the judicial identification service of france, invented the mug shot, a doubled. Verkkosince then, americans have been inundated with mugshot photography, from the fbi’s β€œmost wanted” lists to the alleged debauchery. Verkkohere are an assortment of police portraits and mug shots from the seedy underbelly of 1950s los angeles, made available through the usc digital.

The earliest photos of prisoners taken for use by. Verkkoall mug shots taken by the federated state of california are in the public domain.