Crime Album

Alphonse Bertillon; Dugast

about 1865–1905

Albumen silver prints; Gelatin silver prints; Collodion prints, Albumen silver print, Gelatin silver prints, Collodion print

J. Paul Getty Museum

A closed, dark teal album cover with a textured surface and visible wear along the spine. A faint embossed rectangular border is present on the cover. A closed, dark teal album cover with a textured surface and visible wear along the spine. A faint embossed rectangular border is present on the cover. A bound album containing 125 photographs of crime scenes, created between 1886 and 1902, inserted on 97 double-sided pages. The album was probably assembled privately by someone who worked at the Paris Préfecture de Police under Alphonse Bertillon (French, 1853-1914). The photographs are corner mounted into slits in the album pages. Parry, Eugenia. Crime Album Stories: Paris 1886-1902 (New York: Scalo, 2002).