Photograph of Julian Hawthorne Affixed to Bertillon Measurement Card
From the Inmate Case file of Julian Hawthorne, Inmate No. 4435
Dated March 26, 1913, this is the Bertillon Measurement Card for Julian Hawthorne, son of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. Also an author and journalist himself, Hawthorne was sentenced to 1 year in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for his involvement in a stock fraud scheme. Hawthorne maintained his innocence and later wrote about his experience in prison in his work The Subterranean Brotherhood.
A system of physical identification pre-dating the use of fingerprints, Bertillon Measurements used anthropometrics, such as the length and width of the head and the degree of forehead slope to create an individual’s unique profile.
one more reason to hate google
“I still have a soul”
From Test Poems, a Tumblr that “collects the poems that sellers of typewriters compose to prove utility to potential buyers.”
“Antique 1930s Royal Portable Typewriter - Working Ribbon in Amazing Cond.” by pauldanggg.
Commissioned by Manatee University Strategic Planning?
This is how the university ends: not with a bang, but a chart.
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Source: zungu
George W. Bush makes really good bad art. Love ‘em, seriously.
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“We never run out.”
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