Heliotype titled 'The Inspector's Model,' 1884. Irish-born American police officer Inspector Thomas Byrnes (1842 - 1910) (left) watches as a criminal is restrained. Heliotype Printing Company
Publication: Inspector Thomas Byrnes, Professional Criminals of America, Cassell and Company, New York, 1886 Bonnie Yochelson, Jacob A. Riis, Revealing New York's Other Half, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015, fig , pg 82 Other Collections: Notes: From a late-nineteenth century rogues gallery of America's foremost murderers, bank robbers, con men, forgers, embezzlers, and pickpockets. Written in 1886, Professional Criminals of America contains biographical sketches, including photographs, of some four hundred of the nation's leading criminals. Each profile details the crimes committed and the circumstances leading up to arrest and conviction. Also included are short, informative chapters on criminal methods, executions, opium addiction, fugitives from justice, and prison commutation laws, along with intriguing chapters on mysterious unsolved murders, adventurers and adventuresses, and a list of every prison and state penitentiary in America at the time of publication. Ruthless and innovative, Thomas Byrnes was the most infamous policeman of his day and the father of the modern day detective department. His Rogue's Gallery, a series of portraits and descriptions of criminals that detectives were expected to memorize, played an important role in revolutionizing the role of photography in crimefighting. His classic text, offered here, includes biographies and photographs of 204 New York City burglars, pickpockets, confidence men, forgers, and sneak thieves. Criminals also include a section of 18 women, numerous Irish Americans and Jewish Americans, and disgraced former South Carolina governor Franklin J. Moses.
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