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Hand print from India. Sir William James Herschel (1933-1918), an English colonial official, initiated fingerprinting...

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Hand print from India. Sir William James Herschel (1933-1918), an English colonial official, initiated fingerprinting in India in the 1850s for use on contracts and deeds to prevent fraud. Later this expanded its use for criminal identification
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Hand print from India. Sir William James Herschel (1933-1918), an English colonial official, initiated fingerprinting in India in the 1850s for use on contracts and deeds to prevent fraud. Later this expanded its use for criminal identification

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forensics / unique / science / fingerprints / criminal / technology / historical / ridge patterns / ink / crime / 19th century / criminology / identification / dactyloscopy / filing systems / history / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto
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