Fingerprint identification (3 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Wanted Poster 20 x 20 cm. In acid free Mylar sleeve. Will be shipped flat between heavy cardboard layers, never rolled. A 1940 police "Wanted" notice issued by the Los Angeles Police Department for the suspect William G. Cooper on May 9, 1940. Crime: Grand Theft. Identification Numbers: 18417 (top center) and LA C-129221 (bottom center). Fingerprint Classification: 14 O 5 U OOO 20 and I 17 U OOO 15. Felony Warrant No. 50368 (issued in Div. 4). Bail $10,000. San Francisco Police Number 60747. "Arrest. Hold. We will extradite." Description: "Jew, 33 years, 5 feet 10 inches, 160 lbs., Dark complexion, black hair (slightly wavy, parted on left side). Dark brown eyes, heavy eyebrows, heavy black beard (smooth shaven at time of notice), full features. Some gold in upper front teeth. Wears a 3rd Degree Masonic emblem in his left coat lapel. Wears a 1½ to 2 karat diamond ring with a yellow gold mounting on the ring finger of his right hand. Wears mixed grey or brown suits. Goes bareheaded (does not wear a hat). Prints of the right thumb, left thumb, and right index finger. Two mugshot photos (profile and front-facing) labeled "SAN FRANCISCO 60747". On top: "PLEASE PASTE THIS ON YOUR FINGERPRINT CARD" At bottom: "Kindly Notify the Chief of Police, Los Angeles, California" Cooper was captured, extradited to California, served a two-year prison sentence in a Los Angeles jail for the grand theft and following his release, relocated to New York, where he established hardware and electrical supply business fronts at 50 East 42nd Street in Manhattan. In May 1948, federal Treasury Department agents arrested Cooper in New York for tax evasion: defrauding the U.S. government out of $692,269 between 1943 and 1945 by setting up fictitious addresses and renting vacant stores across the East Side to mask his merchant invoices. At his 1948 arraignment, federal prosecutors successfully argued for immediate detention, citing his prior "criminal record in Los Angeles" and high flight risk due to his history of operating under aliases across multiple states. Following his May 1948 federal arraignment for the tax evasion scheme, he was convicted and sentenced to federal prison. Released by 1952, he orchestrated a new fraud: Working under a commercial operation called the Delco Company, he claimed to be shipping massive freight orders of high-value ballpoint pens to midwestern merchandising firms. The entire operation unraveled by accident when an American Railway Express handler dropped one of Cooper's heavy cargo cartons. The box broke open, revealing candy kisses and old newspapers instead of ballpoint pens. He had been using fake invoices and forged express agency receipts to back up his shipments. He used these fraudulent receipts to borrow nearly $250,000 from a commercial lending house to "finance" his fictional inventory. In October 1952, New York District Attorney Frank S. Hogan indicted Cooper for grand larceny and forgery, citing a localized loss of $36,190 directly stolen from the commercial firm. He pleaded not guilty before Judge Harold A. Stevens in the Court of General Sessions, claiming he desperately "needed the money to save his business." He was convicted and sentenced to a multi-year term in a New York state penitentiary. Following this prison sentence, Cooper faded away, leaving a bizarre legacy in American fraud history - evolving from a 1940 small-time auto or property thief in L.A. to a high-rolling Manhattan swindler who tricked a major commercial finance firm using nothing but forged freight slips and boxes of cheap candy and old newspapers. Verso of the poster is an unused, blank historical police identification card template issued by the Topeka, Kansas Police Department. This Two-Sided Poster is a Production "Quirk" (Material Re-use): It reveals the inner mechanical workings of mid-century bureaucracy [Description continues in the AUTHOR section here]. …

Fingerprint instruction pamphlet issued by J. Edgar Hoover's Division of Investigation during the period in which the federal government consolidated centralized criminal identification systems and standardized fingerprint evidence for nationwide police use. Published one year before the Division formally became the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the pamphlet sets out procedures for fingerprinting "living and deceased individuals," latent print recovery, and "court decisions" governing evidentiary admissibility, documenting how fingerprint analysis moved from specialized police practice into routine bureaucratic administration and courtroom procedure during the early New Deal period. The manual directly addresses cooperation between local departments and the federal Identification Unit, establishing fingerprint exchange as a coordinated national law-enforcement system rather than an isolated municipal technique. Internal illustrations include completed fingerprint classification cards, enlarged ridge-pattern studies, and procedural demonstrations showing the taking of rolled impressions for permanent criminal records. Fingerprints: Fingerprinting Living and Deceased Individuals + Latent Fingerprints + Court Decisions. U.S. Department of Justice, Division of Investigation. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1934. Original printed wrappers. 8vo. 28 pages. The title page bears the seal of the Department of Justice and identifies the publication as a Division of Investigation manual issued before the agency's 1935 renaming as the FBI. Interior text instructs officers on the preparation of standardized 8 x 8 inch fingerprint cards and warns that "carelessness" in taking impressions may prevent "proper classification." A reproduced criminal history and fingerprint form labeled "Division of Investigation U.S. Department of Justice" appears alongside procedural discussions of latent print comparison and evidentiary handling. The front wrapper bears a small typed label reading "Federal Building," suggesting institutional retention or use within a government office environment. The pamphlet belongs to the period when Hoover's Identification Division rapidly expanded into one of the largest centralized repositories of fingerprint records in the world, linking municipal police departments, prisons, sheriffs' offices, and federal investigators through standardized filing and exchange procedures. Its inclusion of "Court Decisions" alongside practical fingerprint instruction preserves the simultaneous legal and administrative consolidation of fingerprint evidence in American criminal prosecutions during the 1930s. Light toning; interior generally clean and complete. Overall good condition.…

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 to standardize latent print analysis, courtroom admissibility, and criminal identification procedures. Federal publications including The Work and Functions of the Division of Investigation (1934) and the Division's instructional pamphlet Fingerprints establish how fingerprint records were integrated into national policing networks, while J. H. Duncan's An Introduction to Fingerprints and T. G. Cooke's Finger Prints Secret Service Crime Detection trace the spread of fingerprint instruction into British constabulary training and private forensic education. The archive documents fingerprinting not as an abstract forensic science but as a coordinated administrative system linking police departments, centralized identification bureaus, crime laboratories, and courts through standardized classification and evidentiary procedures. Archive of 4 printed works published between 1934 and 1942, consisting of two United States Department of Justice Division of Investigation publications, one Constabulary instructional manual, and one privately issued American forensic training text. [1] Cooke, T. G. Finger Prints Secret Service Crime Detection. Chicago: Finger Print Publishing Association, 1930. Second edition. Blue cloth binding. Cooke identifies himself on the title page as former Director and Official Editor of the International Association for Identification, situating the work within the principal professional organization for fingerprint examiners in the United States. The preface rejects the popular "master sleuth" mythology of detective fiction and instead argues that secret service methods depend upon "facts which are easily mastered by any normal person of average intelligence, once you know the ropes." A frontispiece portrait captioned "T. G. Cooke, Finger Print Expert" precedes a discussion of latent print work, criminal identification, and practical investigative method. [2]Hoover, John Edgar, Director. The Work and Functions of the Division of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice. Washington, D.C.: Published for the Information of Law-Enforcement Officials and Agencies, May 1, 1934. Stapled blue wrappers. The introductory statement declares that "all Special Agents in the field must work in close cooperation with police officials in their respective jurisdictions" and notes that "The Identification Unit is at your service every day of the year." The pamphlet outlines investigative, fingerprint identification, and technical laboratory operations within the Division of Investigation during the early Hoover period, immediately preceding the agency's formal renaming as the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935. A small typed label reading "Federal Building" appears at the head of the front wrapper. [3] United States Department of Justice, Division of Investigation. Fingerprints: Fingerprinting Living and Deceased Individuals + Latent Fingerprints + Court Decisions. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1934. Printed wrappers. Issued the same year as the broader Division of Investigation administrative manual, this publication formalizes fingerprint collection and evidentiary procedure for police use. The title page explicitly links latent fingerprint analysis with "Court Decisions," documenting the increasing legal codification of fingerprint evidence in American criminal prosecutions during the 1930s. Sections address fingerprinting of living and deceased persons, latent print recovery, and evidentiary standards required for courtroom acceptance. [4] Duncan, J. H. An Introduction to Fingerprints. London: Butterworth & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., 1942. Original printed wrappers. Duncan is identified as Chief Inspector of the Lancashire Constabulary, placing the work within wartime British police instruction. The title page lists Butterworth distribution offices across Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and Africa, documenting the circulation of fingerprint training literature through imperial policing networks during World War II. The manual presents introductory classification and identification procedures intended for police instruction and practical investigative application. The archive spans the period in which fingerprint identification became embedded within centralized criminal record systems and modern forensic administration. Hoover's Division of Investigation expanded its Identification Division into one of the largest repositories of criminal fingerprint records in the world, while organizations such as the International Association for Identification promoted standardized professional training and evidentiary practice across local and national jurisdictions. The pairing of federal instructional pamphlets with British constabulary and private forensic manuals preserves the convergence of bureaucratic policing, courtroom procedure, and scientific criminal identification across the English-speaking world during the 1930s and 1940s. Moderate edge wear, toning, and handling wear throughout; Cooke in blue cloth with light spotting and rubbing; Duncan with minor discoloration and edge wear to wrappers; federal pamphlets with expected wear from institutional use. Overall good condition.…