Building the Fingerprint State: American and British Forensic Policing Manuals, 1934 to 1942 1930s-40s
Fingerprint identification archive documenting the institutional consolidation of forensic policing in the United States and Britain during the interwar and World War II period. The grouping centers on the expansion of fingerprint classification systems under J. Edgar Hoover’s Division of Investigation and parallel efforts by police instructors and forensic specialists.....
