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FINGERPRINTING ONLINE RESOURCES

THEMES: Argentina, South America, Forensic Science, Personal Identification, Eugenics

BOOKS, ARTICLES

 

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

 

Jeffery G. Barnes, “Chapter 1: History” in Fingerprint Sourcebook (Rockville, MD: National Institute of Justice, 2012).

 

Simon A. Cole, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 128-130.

 

Mark Hawthorne, Fingerprints: Analysis and Understanding (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2009).

 

Jennifer Michael Hecht, The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).

 

Patrick Robertson, Robertson’s Book of Firsts: Who Did What for the First Time  (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011). 

 

Julia Rodriguez, Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

 

Julia Rodriguez, “South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina,” The American Historical Review 109/2 (April 2004): 387-416.

 

 

Primary Sources

Francesca Rojas Fingerprints

 

“For a World-Wide Finger-Print Plan,” New York Times, June 6, 1913.

 

“To Fingerprint Everybody,” New York Times, April 11, 1917.

 

“The Laying on of Hands for Fingerprints,” New York Times Magazine, June 29, 1919.

 

 

ONLINE RESOURCES

Juan Vucetich

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3448300592.html

 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/galleries/cases/vucetich.html

 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/galleries/biographies/vucetich.html

 

Alphonse Bertillon and the “Bertillon System of Classification”

http://www.nleomf.org/museum/news/newsletters/online-insider/november-2011/bertillon-system-criminal-identification.html

 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/galleries/biographies/bertillon.html

 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/galleries/technologies/bertillon.html

 

Engines of our Ingenuity: Bertillon

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2527.htm

 

Francis Galton

http://galton.org

 

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/galton/about/history

 

Francis Galton, Hereditary Genius (London: D. Appleton, 1891).

 

Francis Galton, Finger Prints (London: Macmillian and Company, 1892).

 

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/sir-francis-galton-intelligence-eugenics-fingerprints.html#lesson

 

Eugenics

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh23eu.html

 

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/195069/eugenics

 

History of Fingerprinting

http://www.usmarshals.gov/usmsforkids/fingerprint_history.htm

 

http://onin.com/fp/fphistory.html

 

http://www.southwalespolicemuseum.org.uk/en/content/cms/history_of_the_force/history_of_fingerpri/history_of_fingerpri.aspxQ

 

History of Argentina

http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~munia/475/Presentations/Argentinabrief_history.pdf

 

http://www.countryreports.org/country/Argentina/history.htm

 

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac09

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