Example of the prints taken in India, overlaid by Galton’s interpretation of their main structure, featured in his Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints (1893).
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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Example of Fingerprints Taken in India
Date
1893
From
Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints
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