Chavanne. Gaston. 26 ans, né à Paris VIe. Graveur. Anarchiste. 28/2/94. 1894

Alphonse Bertillon’s *Chavanne. Gaston. 26 ans, né à Paris VIe. Graveur. Anarchiste. 28/2/94.* is a photographic portrait of a young man named Gaston Chavanne, an anarchist engraver, taken in 1894. This mugshot is part of Bertillon’s system of criminal identification, a method of anthropometry used to identify and track criminals based on physical measurements. Bertillon’s system, though now considered outdated, was widely adopted in Europe and the United States for decades.