
FINGERPRINTING ONLINE RESOURCES
THEMES: Argentina, South America, Forensic Science, Personal Identification, Eugenics
BOOKS, ARTICLES
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Mark Hawthorne, Fingerprints: Analysis and Understanding (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2009).
Primary Sources
“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.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://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).
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
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
GRAPHICS and TIMELINES
TIMELINES
Fingerprinting
http://www.fingerprintamerica.com/fingerprinthistory.asp
http://www.crimescene-forensics.com/History_of_Fingerprints.html
Argentina
http://www.timeforkids.com/destination/argentina/history-timeline
VIDEO
NTSTL.org
Smithsonian on Fingerprints