Detail from the title page to Galton’s Finger Prints (1892). He has used his own fingerprints to form the design.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Anthropometric Detective and His Racial Clues
Ava Kofman explores how the spectre of race, in particular Francis Galton's disturbing theory of eugenics, haunts the early history of fingerprint technology.
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Detail from the title page to Galton’s Finger Prints (1892). He has used his own fingerprints to form the design.
Date
1892
From
Finger Prints
