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Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who was responsible for standardizing the modern mug shot.

This cute mug shot features his two-year old son François Bertillon, a hardened criminal who was caught nibbling all the pears from a basket on October 17, 1893.

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Air Balloons, Paris, 1914​


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